2. Diary of Vera Cravath Gibbs, as read by Susan Gibbs in S.S. United States: Lady in Waiting, directed by Robert Radler and produced by Mark B. Perry, Big Ship Films LLC, 2008.
3. Richard Austin Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” Fortune, August 1957, p. 154.
4. Interview of Susan Caccavale by Steven Ujifusa, April 2, 2009.
5. S.S. United States: Christening Ceremonies, Newport News, Virginia, June 23, 1951, publication unknown, collection of Susan Caccavale.
6. “Remarks by Major General John M. Franklin, President, United States Lines Company, at the Launching of the S.S. United States, Newport News, Virginia, June 23, 1951,” William Francis Gibbs Collection, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA.
7. “Connally, Thomas Terry (1877–1963),” The Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/fco36.html, accessed March 24, 2009.
8. Stanley Schill, “SS United States Christened Fleet Queen,” Newport News Daily Press, June 24, 1951.
9. “Gibbs & Cox, Inc. Dinner Party, Fort Room—Chamberlin Hotel, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, Celebrating the Launching of the S.S. United States, Saturday, June 23, 1951, 6:00 P.M. E.S.T.,” collection of Susan Caccavale.
10. Diary of Vera Cravath Gibbs, as read by Susan Gibbs in S.S. United States: Lady in Waiting.
11. Frank Braynard and Robert Hudson Westover, S.S. United States: Fastest Ship in the World (Paducah, KY: Turner, 2002), p. 34.
12. 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. 153.
13. Dorothy Marckwald, as quoted in Gordon R. Ghareeb, “A Woman’s Touch: The Seagoing Interiors of Dorothy Marckwald,” undated article, Ocean Press, Steamship Historical Association of America—South California Chapter, http://home.pacbell.net/steamer/sshsa_socal.html, accessed August 11, 2009.
14. Ibid.
15. Promotional material for Walter Jones, March 8, 1951, Frank O. Brayard Collection, Sea Cliff, NY, courtesy of Noelle Hollander.
16. Memorandum from William Francis Gibbs to Frederic H. Gibbs, January 17, 1950. 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. 2 of 2, pp. 679–1214, VM383 U5 G52, p. 1028, Mariners’ Museum Library, Newport News, VA.
17. Charles Anderson, as interviewed in S.S. United States: Lady in Waiting.
18. Interview of Thomas Buermann, in Raymond Foster Options, Ltd., The S.S. United States: From Dream to Reality, produced by the Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA, 1992.
19. Mark Stebbins, Flowering Trees of Florida (Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, 1999), p. 80.
20. “Fireproofing All Furnishings for Liner Test of Ingenuity,” Newport News Daily Press, February 13, 1952.
21. “S.S. United States Lounge Fittings Made Here, Ellison Workmen Proud of Job,” Jamestown Post-Journal, April 9, 1952.
22. William H. Miller Jr. S.S. United States: The Story of America’s Greatest Ocean Liner (New York: Norton, 1991), p. 86.
23. Sanka Knox, “Rigid Safety Rules Guided Liner’s Art,” New York Times, n.d., Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, VA.
24. Passenger List and Shipboard Information: List of First Class Passengers from New York, Thursday, March 21, 1968 to Havre, Southampton and Bremerhaven, MS15.19515, United States Lines, Steamship Ephemera, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA.
25. “Fireproofing All Furnishings for Liner Test of Ingenuity,” Newport News Daily Press, February 13, 1952.
26. “Theater Equipment Installed on New Liner United States,” Newport News Daily Press, September 30, 1951, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA.
27. Granville Parkinson, “Report on the SS. United States,” Compass Points 10, no. 6 (June 1952), p. 3.
28. “Fireproofing All Furnishings for Liner Test of Ingenuity,” Newport News Daily Press, February 13, 1952.
29. Braynard and Westover, S.S. United States, p. 69.
30. Passenger Fares, No. 1 March 1952, MSIS 19738-MSIS 19738, United States Lines, Steamship Ephemera Collection, United States Lines, Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, VA.
31. Knox, “Rigid Safety Rules Guided Liner’s Art.”
32. Ibid.
33. “A Woman’s Touch: The Seagoing Interiors of Dorothy Marckwald,” http://home.pacbell.net/steamer/marckwald.html, accessed August 30, 2007.
34. Parkinson, “Report on the SS. United States,” pp. 2–3.
35. Memorandum from William Francis Gibbs to Frederic H. Gibbs, April 15, 1952, 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, pp. 81-C–81-C2, Mariners’ Museum Library, Newport News, VA.
20. TURN HER UP
1. George Horne, “United States, 990 Foot Long Superliner, Will Start 3 Day Sea Trials Today,” New York Times, May 14, 1952, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA.
2. Ibid.
3. Frank O. Braynard, “Captions for illustrations for United States book, #27,” ca. 1980, Frank O. Braynard Collection, Sea Cliff, NY, courtesy of Noelle Hollander.
4. Walter Hamshar, “Aboard the Liner United States,” New York Herald Tribune, May 14, 1952.
5. John McCarten, “Talk of the Town: Trial by Raydist,” New Yorker, May 31, 1952, p. 18.
6. Photo-request No. 52-274/24, First Trial Run, from the Frank O. Braynard Collection, Sea Cliff, NY.
7. Hamshar, “Aboard the Liner United States.”
8. McCarten, “Talk of the Town: Trial by Raydist,” p. 18.
9. John R. Kane, “The Speed of the S.S. United States,” Marine Technology 15, no. 2 (April 1978), pp. 119–43.
10. McCarten, “Talk of the Town: Trial by Raydist,” p. 18.
11. Ibid., p. 19.
12. “A Woman’s Touch: The Seagoing Interiors of Dorothy Marckwald,” http://home.pacbell.net/steamer/marckwald.html, accessed August 30, 2007.
13. George Horne, “Superliner Ends Successful Test,” New York Times, May 17, 1952.
14. Ibid.
15. George Horne, “Superliner Mishap Delays Speed Run,” New York Times, May 16, 1952.
16. “A Woman’s Touch: The Seagoing Interiors of Dorothy Marckwald.”