Harris’s correspondence with, 198–99
resignation of, 203, 208
Land, Mrs. Emory S., 171
landing craft, 176, 189, 195
Lantz, Michael, 257
Lapham, Lewis, 351–52
Larkin, Adrian, 100, 101, 103, 245, 339, 341, 342, 343
Larkin, James, 100
Larkin, Vera Cravath, see Gibbs, Vera Cravath
Lasker, Albert, 76–79, 83, 84, 85, 116
Leviathan’ s maiden voyage and, 90
law, lawyers, 17, 35, 48–49, 56, 58, 189
Cravath and, 100–101, 102, 104
Leahy, William D., 145
Lebrun, Albert François, 137
Le Corbusier, 122
Lee, Howard E., Jr., 239
Le Havre, 137, 174, 207, 276
United States in, 308, 310–11, 328, 331–32
Lenfest, H. F. “Gerry,” 368–70
Leonardo da Vinci, 346
Leviathan, 69–97, 101, 115–18, 136, 266, 274, 346
accident of, 123–24, 201
aging of, 116, 122
Bremen compared with, 120
Design 12201/United States compared with, 203, 259, 260
design flaws of, 92–93
earnings of, 91–92, 115, 154, 156
Gibbs Brothers’ loss of, 91, 105
Gibbs’s lessons from, 246
maiden transatlantic voyage of, 82, 88–91, 93, 106
as model for Design 12201, 201
obsolescence of, 97
public controversy about, 74–75, 77
race proposed for, 92
reconversion of, 70–87, 92–93, 97, 106, 260
replacement for, see America
retirement of, 154–55, 158–59, 313
sale of, 116–18
size of, 81–82, 90, 116
trials of, 81, 85–88, 266
as troop ship, 64, 70, 362
Leviathan II, 126, 128
Leviathan III, 126, 128
Levy, Cissie, 326
Lewis, Milton, 314
Leyland, 24
Liberté, 214, 305, 336, 346
Liberty Ships, 171–73, 176, 178, 179, 231, 361, 362, 368
Lie, Trygve, 302
Life, 243, 331
lifeboat drills, 299, 301
lifeboats, 45, 51, 52, 53, 111, 333
of Morro Castle, 119, 129, 130, 132, 133
of Olympic, 43
of Titanic, 40, 41, 42
of United States, 237, 259, 299, 301, 360
of Washington, 168, 169
Lincoln, Abraham, 330, 341
Lindbergh, Charles, 159, 160
Linder, First Officer, 95–96
Lippmann, Walter, 20
Lipton, Seymour, 257, 268
Liverpool, 8, 9, 10, 27, 52, 109
Locust Valley, 101, 104, 181, 340
logs, 293
London, 45, 101, 112, 167, 345
London Daily Mail, 296–97
Long Island, 54, 59, 60, 61, 83, 102, 247, 341
Locust Valley in, 101, 104, 181, 340
Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), 59
“Long Telegram” (Kennan), 218
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 89
lounges, United States, 235, 251–52, 253, 267–268, 285, 308
Lucania, 3n, 12
Luftwaffe, 165, 167, 204
Lusitania, 25–28, 30, 32, 38, 111, 333–34
reparations for, 97
United States compared with, 233, 260
World War I and, 52–53
Lux, Gwen, 255, 270, 296, 308
luxury, 6, 9, 14, 16, 21, 39, 47, 84, 92, 198, 361
of America, 158, 212
Design 12201/United States and, 207, 235, 246, 256, 259, 356
of German superliners, 50, 51
of Italian ships, 135
of Mauretania, 27–28
of Morro Castle and Oriente, 119
in 1920s, 114–16, 119
of Normandie, 136–37
safety vs., 132, 246
MacArthur, Douglas, 235, 280
McCloy, John J., 15, 352
McCormack, Emmet, 77
McCrary, Eugenia, 325–26
McGranery, James P., 283, 284
MacIver, Charles, 8
Mackay-Bennett, 46–47
McKeough, Raymond, 221–22, 227–28
McLean, Malcolm, 336
McMullen, John P., 350
MacMurray, Fred, 323
Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 143
Mahan-class destroyers, 143–46, 362
mail, 8, 9, 11, 54, 121, 125, 133, 155
Leviathan and, 77, 89
Maine, 146, 171, 186, 343, 366
Main Line, 34, 49, 255
Majestic, 81–82, 88, 92, 93, 97, 114, 115, 201
aging of, 116, 154
Malmquist, Sidney, 297–98
Malmsea, Andrew, 276, 299
Malolo, 105–13, 140, 289, 351
near sinking of, 108–12, 201, 332, 362
Manhattan, 128, 169, 198, 294
Manning, Florence Isabella Trowbridge Heaton, 167
Manning, Harry, 51, 93–96, 212, 318, 352
airplanes and, 159, 160–61
marriage of, 167
United States and, 264–68, 271, 277–78, 285, 291–92, 294, 297–312, 314–15, 317–18, 356
World War II and, 167–69
mansions, 13, 15–16, 23, 181, 341
Marckwald, Dorothy, 140, 158, 367
United States and, 234, 235, 245–48, 251–56, 259–60, 296, 360
Marie, Jean, 346
Marie, Queen of Romania, 114
Marine Age, 214
Marine Engineering, 132
Marine Engineering and Shipping News, 92, 111–12
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, 347
Marine News, 82
Marines, U.S., 87
Marinite, 158, 249
Maritime Administration, U.S, 229, 236, 280, 281, 349, 350, 354, 356
Maritime Commission, U.S., 155–56, 157, 170–73, 185, 209
abolition of, 228, 229, 236
Audit Branch of, 172
Bureau of Engineering of, 195, 199
creation of, 44, 155
Design 11811 and, 195
Design 12201/United States and, 207, 208, 210, 215, 216, 220–23, 225, 227–28
FDR’s directive to, 198
Gibbs’s problems with, 172–73, 179, 195
Harris’s letter to, 198–99
House investigation of, 227–28
John Franklin’s seeking of subsidy and, 207, 215
John Franklin’s work for, 197
Land’s resignation from, 203, 208
post–World War II designs considered by, 195
Maritime Service, U.S., 366
Maritime Service Station, U.S., 276–77
Marshall, George C., 236
Mary, Queen of England, 151, 241
mass production, 146, 171–72, 178, 179, 361–62
mathematics, 21, 48, 54
Matson Line, 105, 332
Mauretania, 25–28, 42, 50, 97, 120–23, 273, 346
aging of, 116, 122–23
Gibbs’s ships compared with, 54, 56, 59
maiden voyage of, 27–28, 30–33, 38, 307
retirement of, 154
speed of, 32, 33, 56, 59, 69, 84, 88, 90, 91, 92, 116, 121, 266
trial run of, 26, 31, 88
World War I and, 52