Harriman, W. Averell, 77
Harris, Basil, 127, 197, 198–99
Hartley, Herbert, 87, 89, 90, 91, 94–95, 115
Harvard, 17–21, 33, 34, 38, 45, 47, 56, 60, 68, 144, 189, 193
Harvard Stadium, 20
Havana, 119, 130
Haverford, Pa., 34, 49, 54, 62
Hayes, Bertram, 67–68
Hearst, William Randolph, 42, 63, 175
Leviathan controversy and, 74–75, 77
Heathrow Airport, 345
Heinkel seaplane, 121
Henry, Patrick, 172
Hicks, Preston, 241
Hicks, Raymond, 216, 221
high-pressure, high-temperature steam, 124–25, 142, 143–44, 146, 336
high-pressure, high-temperature turbines, 124–125, 141–44, 148, 202, 203, 362
Hindenburg, 160
Hitler, Adolf, 153, 164, 167, 180, 182
Hoboken, N.J., 62, 63, 74, 155, 159
Hong Kong, 352–53
Hoover, Dickinson N., 132
Hoover, Herbert, 107
Horne, George, 223–24, 268, 269, 296, 304–5, 311
horsepower, 122, 125, 150, 209
of Bremen, 120, 121, 125
of Design 12201/United States, 20, 203, 209, 210, 233, 266, 356
of Navy destroyers, 144, 146
of Queen Mary, 202
Horton, Drucie Snyder, 295, 296, 309
hospital ships, 50, 52, 53
House of Morgan, 12, 23, 46, 53, 60–63, 183
House of Representatives, U.S., 45–46
Expenditures Committee of, 227–28
Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee of, 283
Naval Affairs Committee of, 181–89, 211
Hudson River, 7, 32–33, 43, 62, 96, 114, 145, 204
Lafayette fire in, 174, 175
Leviathan in, 79, 80, 89
United States in, 289, 298, 317, 321
Vaterland’ s accidental backing into, 51, 64
Huhn, Augusta May Gibbs, 15
Huhn, William Hamilton Tevis, 15
Hull 534, 150–51
see also Queen Mary
hull design, 57, 58, 92–93, 122, 126, 157, 170
for Design 12201/United States, 200–203, 231, 324, 355
hulls, 205, 214, 361
models of, 208–9
of United States, 231, 234, 237, 240, 245
Huntington, Collis, 82–83
Huntington, Mrs. Collis, 83
icebergs, 40, 42, 44, 45, 51, 261
Iddon, Don, 296–97, 300, 301, 302–3, 308
Idlewild Airport, 345
“If” (Kipling), 342–43
Ile de France, 115–16, 121, 123, 212, 213, 274, 333, 336, 346
World War II and, 164, 165–66
IMM, see International Mercantile Marine
immigrants, 5, 8, 9, 24, 31, 38, 39, 213, 258, 274, 276, 330, 348, 349
U.S. restriction of, 91–92
Immigration Act (1965), 348
Imperator, 51, 69, 97
Inchon landing, 235
Independence Day celebration, 304–5
Inman Line, 11
insulation, 14, 174, 238, 248, 361
insurance, 133, 216
interior decoration, 205, 321
of America, 158, 212, 234, 235, 247, 251, 254
of Leviathan, 159
of Morro Castle, 132
of Normandie, 136–37
of Queen Mary, 149–50, 152, 153, 255, 258, 295
of Santas, 140
of United States, 234, 235, 246–59, 295, 300, 360
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 45, 112, 362
International Ice Patrol, 45
International Mercantile Marine (IMM), 12, 23–25, 62, 68, 81, 97, 154–59, 348
bankruptcy of, 46, 50
Franklin’s leave from, 64
Gibbs’s exit from, 78, 79, 85
Ismay’s resignation from, 46
John Franklin brought into, 127
Leviathan reconversion and, 70–79, 83–84
Panama Pacific Line and, 106
superliner project on hold at, 68, 74
Titanic disaster and, 37–46, 75
United States Lines deal of, 127–28
World War I and, 50, 52, 53, 60
International Navigation Company (Red Star Line), 4, 11, 24
International Union of Masters, Mates and Pilots, 347
Inverclyde, Lord, 24
Ireland, 39, 52, 169
Ismay, J. Bruce, 24, 38–42, 46
Ismay, Thomas, 9
Italian Line, 135, 167, 205, 213, 332, 346
Italy, 96, 97, 101, 107, 112
Fascist, 135–36, 153
World War II and, 167
Jacob Christiansen, 108–9, 112
James, William, 18
James River, 243, 245, 264, 270, 354
Japan, 107, 141, 350
in World War II, 173–74, 180, 193, 194, 198, 225
Jeremiah O’Brien, 368
Jews, 9, 147, 153, 166, 167, 232
J. H. Winchester & Company, 117
J. J. Henry & Company, 336
John Brown & Company, 26, 30, 150
Johnson, Louis A., 226, 227, 234–36
Johnson, Lyndon, 348
John W. Brown, 368
Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S., 235–36
Jones, Walter, 270
Jones-White Act (1928), 155
J. P. Morgan and Company, 60–62
Justice Department, U.S., 284
Kaempffert, Waldemar, 122, 124
Kaiser, Bill, 266, 267–68, 291, 315, 323, 352
United States’ maiden voyage and, 293, 298, 302, 305
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, 12, 28–29
Kaiser Wilhelm II, 27–30, 117
Kane, John R., 355–56
Kaplan, Elaine Scholley, 231–33, 243, 245, 270, 289, 322, 366
United States’ maiden voyage and, 296, 308
Kaplan, Howard, 231–32, 243, 296, 322
Keating, Cletus, 221
keels, 39, 107, 226–30, 336
of SS United States, 227–30, 249, 359
of USS United States, 226
Keller, K. T., 211
Kendall, Henry, 109
Kennan, George, 218
Kennedy, Joseph P., 155–56
Kerstgens, Frieda, 329
King, William, 253
Kipling, Rudyard, 342–43
kitchens, 153, 300–301
kitchen staff, 212, 274
Kline, Robert E., Jr., 183–84, 186
Knickerboocker Trust Company, 33
knots, 6
see also speed
Knox, Frank, 174, 184
Korean War, 234–35, 244, 280, 302
kosher kitchens, 153, 300
Kronprinzessin Cecilie, 117
Kronprinz Wilhelm, 28–29
Krudener, Bill, 275–79, 287–88, 324–25, 327–28, 345, 369
United States’ maiden voyage and, 299, 301, 303, 307
Kuhn, Ferdinand, 121
labor costs, 208, 216, 217, 347, 354
labor unions, 94, 127, 155, 161–63, 216, 217, 275, 278, 344, 347–48, 366
Lafayette, USS, 174–76, 180
La Follette, Robert, 77
LaGuardia Airport, 214
Laing, Andrew, 26, 30
lamps, 251–52, 256, 326
Lancaster, Burt, 323, 328
Land, Emory S., 143, 144, 156, 162, 171
Bates’s support from, 195
FDR’s directive to, 198
Gibbs’s problems with, 172–73, 179, 195