of Malolo, 105, 107–8
of Normandie, 174
U.S. dismal time for, 106–7, 108
Vaterland/Leviathan and, 64, 71, 73–74, 77, 79, 80–81, 85
containerization, 336
Conte di Savoia, 135, 153, 167
cooks, 212, 265, 274, 277, 293
Cornell, Katharine, 338
corruption, 155, 219, 280
Council of Foreign Relations, 104
Cove, George E., 318
Cox, Daniel, 125, 146–47
Cram, George, 21
Cramp, Charles H., 4, 5
Cramp Shipyard, 3–6, 10, 105, 108, 110, 111, 272, 369
“crash ahead test,” 271
crash gates, 258–59
Cravath, Agnes, 101
Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, 100–101, 102, 104
Cravath, Paul, 15, 100–104, 340, 352
Cravath, Vera, see Gibbs, Vera Cravath
crew, 347, 353
boat drill and, 299
of Morro Castle, 132, 133, 162
Panamanian registry and, 162
of United States, 273–79, 316–17, 327–28
wages of, 208, 216
Cristoforo Colombo, 213
cruisers, 142, 174, 176, 179, 180
cruises, pleasure, 349, 350, 353, 354–55, 358, 361–62, 368
cuisine, 8, 9, 90, 114, 212
United States and, 265, 274, 277, 289, 293, 299–300, 330
Cunard, Samuel, 8, 18
Cunard Line, 3n, 8, 9, 24–33, 106, 114, 116, 122–23
Blue Riband and, 7n, 11–12, 26–27, 30–33, 39, 116, 120, 122, 149, 152, 206, 307
engines used by, 29–30
IMM and, 24–25, 52
rate war and, 39
World War I and, 52
see also Lusitania; Mauretania
Cunard Shipping Company, 24–25
Cunard White Star Line Limited, 154, 205, 301, 346–47, 350, 361
formation of, 151
Mayer’s deal with, 357, 358
postwar future of, 212–13
Queen Mary and, 7n, 148–54
World War II and, 165, 166, 204
Cunningham, Harold, 123
Curran, Big Joe, 161–63, 275, 347, 366
currents, 7, 88, 314
Currie, John, 31
Curtis turbo generator system, 54–57, 125, 141
Dali, Gala, 328
Dali, Salvador, 323, 328
Dallas, Rebekah, 232
dal Piaz, Jean, 115–16
dance-card problem, 304
Daniel, Clifton, Jr., 331
Daniels, Josephus, 55, 58
Davidson, James H., 145–46
David W. Taylor Model Basin, 210
Davis, Meyer, 274, 294, 298, 303, 360
Dawson, William, 227
D-Day, 180, 189
deck crew, 273
deck log, 293
defense budget, U.S., 219, 235
Defense Department, U.S., 219, 234, 235
De Lancey School, 16–17
Delaware River, 358, 359, 369, 370
Democrats, 182, 244, 280, 331
Denfield, Louis, 226
Dennison, Robert, 318–19
design, 30–33, 62
aircraft, 214
of Bremen, 120–21
Gibbs and, 18–19, 32, 33, 47, 49–50, 56–60, 72–73, 78, 79, 84–85, 112, 138–41, 146, 147, 148, 150, 153, 156–57, 169, 171, 175, 179, 183, 193, 210, 211, 215, 219, 319, 335, 337, 342, 355–56, 362
hull, see hull design
Leviathan’ s flaws in, 92–93
of Malolo, 107, 111, 112
of Queen Mary, 149–50
U.S. Navy and, 43, 55, 57, 146, 183, 184, 185, 354, 355
Design IV, 195, 196, 203, 208–9, 210
Design 11811, 195–96, 203, 205
Design 12201, 200–211, 215–22, 313
contract signing for, 222–25
cost of, 203, 206, 208, 215, 216, 220, 223
earnings expected from, 216, 217
escalator clause and, 221
German models for, 201
troop transport and, 206, 210–11
destroyers, 142–48, 170, 171, 174, 176, 179, 180, 186, 195, 335, 340, 356, 362
engines in, 144, 145, 150, 153, 157, 202
Vinson Naval Plan and, 182
Destroyers (band), 232
Deutschland, 27, 28–29, 89
Dickens, Charles, 31
Dilworth, Richardson, 333
dining rooms, 90–91, 136–37
of United States, 252, 254–55, 257, 258, 265, 268, 270, 289, 299–300, 302, 307–8, 325
Disney, Walt, 323
divorce, 38, 100, 101, 295n
doors, fire, 119, 131, 132, 158, 260
double reduction gears, 142, 144, 202
“Dover Beach” (Arnold), 266
draperies, 247, 253, 254, 326
Dreadnought, HMS, 29
Drexel, Anthony Joseph, Jr., 15, 28
duBarry, William, 127n
Duck Suite, 295, 326–27, 357, 360
Dunn, Laura Franklin, 66, 163, 294–96, 309, 310, 327, 366
DuPont PAW tape, 238
Dynel, 247, 248, 254
Earhart, Amelia, 160
Eastern Europe, 9, 167, 218, 348
Edison, Charles, 163, 179
Eggers & Higgins, 246, 253
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 65–67, 197, 280, 302, 318–19
elections, U.S.:
of 1936, 155
of 1952, 280, 302, 318
electrical system, 214
of Leviathan, 80, 81
of United States, 260
electric drive, 54–57
Electric Storage Battery Company, 4, 23, 98
see also Exide
Eliot, Charles, 18
Eliot, T. S., 20
Elkins, William, 14
Ellington, Duke, 213, 323, 360
Ellison Bronze Company, 250
Emerald, The, 367–68
emergency backup systems, 260
Emergency Fleet Corporation, 118
Emergency Shipbuilding Program, 118
Emmet, William LeRoy, 54–58, 60, 122
Empress of Ireland, 109–10
engine crew, 273
engineers, engineering, 14, 26, 32, 48, 49, 54, 62, 93, 97, 99, 144, 183
Gibbs’s reading about, 13, 16, 85
at Harvard, 17, 20–21, 34
U.S. Navy, 19, 55, 57–58
W. W. Gibbs’s view of, 17, 35, 189
engines, 28–30, 54–57, 138–39, 202, 361
of Bremen, 120, 121
of Design 12201/United States, 202, 231, 263, 266, 267, 269, 271, 293, 297–98, 305, 356, 359
in destroyers, 144, 145, 150, 153, 157, 202
of German express liner, 209
Gibbs’s ships and, 54, 140, 202
of Normandie, 138
of Queen Mary, 150, 153, 202
of Rex, 135
smaller, 124–25, 141, 143, 144, 145, 153, 203
technological advances in, 10, 28, 29, 124–25
of Vaterland/Leviathan, 64, 80, 81, 87–88, 89, 92
England, 7, 8, 26, 41, 57, 59, 89, 139, 311
cargo vessels for, 170–71
English Channel, 90, 122, 199, 218, 310, 311
Episcopal Church, 343–44
Europa, 116, 120–23, 125, 126, 135, 136, 201, 213–14, 305, 346
Nazism and, 153
World War II and, 164, 165, 213
Exide, 56, 98
expansion joints, 157