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35. Ellen Hanlon to Vera Cravath Gibbs, September 21, 1967, William Francis Gibbs Collection, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA.
36. Investigation of the Progress of the War Effort, p. 3790.
37. Horne, “Designer Keeps New Superliner a Structural Mystery to the World.”
38. Alva Johnson, “The Mysterious Mr. Gibbs—I,” Saturday Evening Post, January 20, 1945, p. 10.
39. Richard Austin Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” Fortune, August 1957, p. 148.
40. “Giant New Liner Gets Here in Fog,” New York Times, November 23, 1907.
14. THE QUEEN AND THE AMERICA
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2. Architect Builder and News, as quoted in John Malcolm Brinnin, The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic (New York: Delacorte Press, 1971), p. 484.
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5. Ibid.
6. John Maxtone-Graham, Normandie (New York: Norton, 2007), pp. 157, 163.
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8. Johnson, The Cunard Story, p. 116.
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10. Frank O. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship: The Story of the Leviathan, vol. 6 (King’s Point, NY: American Merchant Marine Academy, n.d.) p. 94.
11. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “The Queen with a Fighting Heart,” 1936, published in Sea Breezes, 1950, as quoted in Mark D. Warren, ed., “The Trials of the Mauretania,” in The Cunard Turbine-Driven Quadruple-Screw Atlantic Liner “Mauretania” (Wellingborough, UK: Patrick Stephens, 1987), p. v.
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20. Ibid., p. 25.
21. Proposed Plan for the Future Development of the United States Lines Company, 1937, p. 5, RG 178, Records of the U.S. Maritime Commission, File 130–29, Box 927, HM 2005, National Archives, College Park, MD.
22. Interview of Clifford D. Mallory Jr., March 12, 1973, by Frank O. Braynard, and letter dated November 2, 1981, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 6, p. 291.
23. Ibid.
24. John Merryman Franklin, Recollections of My Life (Baltimore: Reese Press, 1973), p. 44.
25. Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long, Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), p. 102.
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29. Ibid.
30. “Ethical Question,” Time, November 20, 1939, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762795-1,00.html, accessed March 5, 2009.
31. Ibid.
32. Interview with Laura Franklin Dunn, June 16, 2008.
33. Richard Austin Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” Fortune, August 1957, p. 153.
15. A FULL MEASURE OF TOIL
1. William H. Miller Jr., The Great Luxury Liners, 1927–1954: A Photographic Record (Mineola, NY: Dover, 1980), p. 103.
2. Peter Huchthausen, “Shadow Voyage—Escape of the German Liner S.S. Bremen,” Maritime Network, http://www.freewebs.com/tmnarticles/bremen.htm, accessed December 17, 2008.
3. Frank O. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them: The Life and the Ships of William Francis Gibbs 1886–1967 (New York: Gibbs & Cox, 1968), p. 95.
4. Miller, The Great Luxury Liners, 1927–1954, p. 108.
5. “Invasion, 1952,” Time, June 23, 1952, p. 86, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,859829-4,00.html.
6. Harry Manning, “Ten Minutes,” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 66, no. 453, (November 1940), p. 1591.
7. Ibid., p. 1592.
8. John Merryman Franklin, Recollections of My Life (Baltimore: Reese Press, 1973), p. 48.
9. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, pp. 81–83.
10. Frederic C. Lane, Ships for Victory: A History of Shipbuilding under the U.S. Maritime Commission (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), p. 82.
11. Ibid., p. 93.
12. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, pp. 86–87.
13. Lane, Ships for Victory, p. 79.
14. Ibid., pp. 98–99.
15. House of Representatives, Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1943, Hearings, before the Subcommittee of the Committee of Appropriations, 77th Congress, 2nd Session, on the Independent Office Appropriations Bill for 1943, December 9, 1941, p. 277, as quoted in Lane, Ships for Victory, p. 99.