16. William Francis Gibbs to Gibbs & Cox staff, December 8, 1941, as quoted in Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, p. 95.
17. John Maxtone-Graham, Normandie (New York: Norton, 2006), p. 217.
18. Ibid., pp. 221–23.
19. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, p. 69.
20. Frank O. Braynard, Picture History of the Normandie (New York: Dover, 1987), p. 93.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., p. 97.
23. Ibid., p. 119.
24. Ibid., p. 123.
25. “Technological Revolutionist,” Time, September 28, 1942, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773637,00.html, accessed December 21, 2008.
26. George Horne, “Interview of the Week: Meet William F. Gibbs, Designer of the Superliner ‘United States,’ to Whom One Lifetime Is Not Enough,” Senior Scholastic, April 30, 1952.
27. Richard Austin Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” Fortune, August 1957, p. 139.
28. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, p. 194.
29. Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” p. 138.
30. Ibid., p. 139.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid., p. 158.
33. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, p. 133.
34. Governor Charles Edison to President Franklin Roosevelt, December 31, 1941, 18–Misc. Naval Building File, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY.
35. Ibid.
36. President Franklin Roosevelt to Governor Charles Edison, January 7, 1942, 18-Misc. Naval Building File, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY.
37. Lane, Ships for Victory, p. 609.
38. Ibid.
39. George Horne, “Designer Keeps New Superliner a Structural Mystery to the World,” New York Times, May 13, 1949.
40. Miller, The Great Luxury Liners, 1927–1954, p. 114.
41. “L.I. Properties in New Ownership,” New York Times, March 11, 1950.
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44. “Cravath Bequests Exceed $2,000,000,” New York Times, July 12, 1940.
45. John G. Sharp, History of the Washington Navy Yard Civilian Workforce, 1799–1962 (Washington, DC: Naval District Washington, Washington Navy Yard, 2005), p. 72, http://www.history.navy.mil/books/sharp/WNY_History.pdf, accessed March 19, 2011.
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49. Investigation of the Progress of the War Effort, p. 3937.
50. Ibid., p. 3938.
51. Ibid., pp. 3940–41.
52. Ibid., p. 3955.
53. Ibid., p. 3971.
54. Ibid., p. 3974.
55. Ibid., p. 3978.
56. Ibid., p. 3978.
57. Ibid., p. 3995.
58. Ibid., p. 3997.
59. Ibid., pp. 3998–4000.
60. Ibid., p. 4027.
61. Ibid., p. 4036.
62. “New Suit Against Alkali,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 12, 1902.
63. Alva Johnson, “The Mysterious Mr. Gibbs—I,” Saturday Evening Post, January 20, 1945, p. 39.
64. Address by William Francis Gibbs to Gibbs & Cox staff, June 1944, as quoted in Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, p. 118.
16. A VERY PLEASING APPEARANCE
1. Frank O. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them: The Life and Ships of William Francis Gibbs (New York: Gibbs & Cox, 1968), pp. 145–46.
2. Ibid., p. 107.
3. Superliner Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Eight-Fifth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 9342 to Authorize the Construction and Sale of a Superliner Passenger Vessel Equivalent to the Steamship United States, Identical and Similar Bills; H.R. 9432 to Authorize the Construction and Sale by the Federal Maritime Board of a Passenger Vessel for Operation in the Pacific Ocean, and Identical Bills (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958), p. 158.
4. “Winged Victory Presentation Aboard the S.S. United States, July 1, 1952,” Compass Points, published by Gibbs & Cox, n.d. (ca. July 10, 1952), pp. 7–8, collection of Susan Caccavale.
5. Johnson, “The Mysterious Mr. Gibbs—Part I,” p. 10.
6. Winthrop Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” New Yorker, June 6, 1964, p. 62.
7. Memorandum from William Francis Gibbs to Frederic H. Gibbs, December 11, 1944, 12201 SI-I (16-13400) Confidential, Subject: Design 12201—S.S. United States—Design Particulars and Information, January 24, 1950 Edition, Revised to June 27, 1950, March 19, 1951, and April 24, 1951, vol. 1 of 2, pp. 1–678-B, VM383 U5 G52, p. 4, Mariners’ Museum Library, Newport News, VA.
8. William Francis Gibbs, “S.S. United States,” Journal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, December 1953, p. 549.
9. Interview of Thomas Buermann, Raymond Foster Options, Ltd., The S.S. United States: From Dream to Reality, produced by the Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA, 1992.
10. Ibid.
11. John Merryman Franklin, Recollections of My Life (Baltimore: Reese Press, 1973), p. 49.
12. Exhibit A: Agreement of Merger Between International Mercantile Marine Company, a New Jersey Corporation and United States Lines Company, a Nevada Corporation, Merging United States Lines Company into International Mercantile Marine Company, the New Jersey Corporation (To be known as the United States Lines Company, the Surviving Corporation), Proof No. 5, April 8, 1943 (New York: Bowne, 1943), p. 3, RG 178, Records of the United States Maritime Commission, 130-29, Exhibit 6 to 130-29-4 (PT-1), Box 928, HM 2005, National Archives, College Park, MD.
13. Basil Harris, “Preamble to Post War Shipping: Excerpt from an address by Basil Harris President of the United States Lines Company before the faculty of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.,” December 13, 1944, unknown publication, File No. 130-29, Part 7, RG 178, Records of the United States Maritime Commission, 130-29 (PT-5) to 130-29, Exhibit 5, Box 927, HM 2005, National Archives, College Park, MD.
14. “President Urges Maritime Planning,” New York Times, October 26, 1944.