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Mayer, Fred, 357–58

Mayflower, 10n

Maynor, Dorothy, 103

medals, commemorative, 316

Mellin, Rev. John O., 351

Mellon, Grenville, 221, 222, 227, 228

merchant marine, German, 76

merchant marine, U.S., 5, 9, 44, 52, 90, 118, 156, 161, 198, 217, 273, 304

   advisory committee to, 211–12, 218–19

   Senate investigation of, 133

Merchant Marine Act (1920), 358

Merchant Marine Act (1936), 155, 215, 220, 284

merchant ships, 179

Merman, Ethel, 323, 360

Meyer Davis Orchestra, 254, 274, 294, 298, 300, 301, 303

Michelangelo, 346

Mitchell, Ewing Y., 155

model shop, 145, 202, 208–9

model tests, 57–59, 62, 208–9, 210

   for United States, 233–34, 239, 247–48, 264

Monarch of Bermuda, 129–30

Monitor, 10n

Monroe, Marilyn, 323

Monroe-McCormack, 77

Montauk, Long Island, 54, 59, 61, 83, 336

Monticello, 117

Mooney, Franklin, 132–33

Moore, Albert V., 77

Morgan, John Pierpont, 9, 12, 18, 23–25, 37, 38–39, 45, 50, 61, 100, 348, 367

   Ballin’s profit-sharing agreement with, 24, 51

   IMM mistake made by, 52

   last years and death of, 45–46, 60

Morgan, J. P., Jr. “Jack,” 46, 50, 52, 60–62, 68, 75, 83

   Gibbs brothers’ meeting with, 61–62, 244

Morison, Samuel Eliot, 20

Morris, Frederick, 351

Morro Castle, 119, 141, 155, 162, 249

   fire in, 129–34, 158, 161, 174, 176, 260, 334

Mount Vernon, 117

movie theaters, 306

   in United States, 250, 253–54, 258, 270, 289, 303, 308, 316–17, 360

Mull, J. Harry, 111

Müller, Herman, 276, 277

murals, 158, 247, 249, 255

   in United States, 205, 251, 252, 257, 357

murder, 130–31

music, 28, 88, 137, 232, 317, 337

   superliner project compared with, 194–95, 273

   United States and, 243, 245, 254, 274, 275, 294, 296, 298, 300, 301, 303, 308, 309–10, 312, 323, 330, 360

   Vera Gibbs and, 100, 102, 103, 104, 338, 341, 365

Mussolini, Benito, 135, 136, 153

My Fair Lady (musical), 337

Nancy Moran, 298

National Bureau of Standards, 247–48

National Maritime Union (NMU), 161–63, 275, 278, 347, 366

nautical miles, 6, 26, 88

Navajo Lounge, 252, 253, 285

Naval Intelligence, U.S., 209

Naval Review (1897), 29

Navigation Act, U.S. (1817), 23

navigation system, 260–61

Navy, German, 29

Navy, U.S., 19, 33, 43, 55–58, 79, 87, 89, 163, 219, 362

   Board of Inspection of, 146

   Bureau of Construction and Repair of, 56–58, 107, 143, 156

   Bureau of Engineering of, 141, 144, 147

   Bureau of Ships of, 184, 229

   Design 12201/United States and, 210–11, 220, 228, 242, 251, 254, 268, 284, 354, 355

   Gibbs & Cox work for, 142–48, 157, 166, 181–89, 202, 335–36, 367

   Leviathan decommissioned by, 74

   rebuilding of, 134, 141–48, 157, 182

   supercarrier plans and, 225–26

   World War II and, 169, 173–76, 180, 273

Navy Department, U.S., 56–57, 145, 146, 183, 188, 209, 262

Navy Experimental Model Basin, U.S., 57–59, 62

Navy Renegotiation Board, 185, 187

Neighborhood Playhouse Theater, 338

Neutrality Act (1939), 161

Newcastle, 26, 27, 30

New Deal, 181–82, 244

New Jersey, 130, 146, 176, 331, 336, 352

   Shore of, 4, 14–15, 16, 129–30

New Jersey Meadowlands, 240

Newport News, Va., 229, 243, 278, 279, 283, 284, 285, 357

   Mariners’ Museum in, 352, 365, 367

Newport News Daily Press, 235, 249

Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, 108, 139, 148, 335–36, 355, 367

   America and, 157–58, 161

   Design 12201/United States and, 220, 221, 228–31, 233–34, 237–45, 263, 268, 269, 271, 283, 287, 317, 353, 359, 367

   Gibbs hated by, 158, 186

   Leviathan and, 78–83, 87

   supercarrier plans and, 226

Newport News Times, 270

newsboy accident, 34

New York, 11, 244

New York American, 42, 75

New York Chancery Court, 46

New York City, 4, 7, 8, 18, 27, 58, 59, 64–68, 88, 97, 111, 119, 207, 213, 218, 255, 283–298, 313–18, 332, 337–41

   airports in, 214, 345

   anti-Nazi rioters in, 153, 154

   arts in, 337–39, 344, 365

   Astor family in, 37–38

   Bremen’ s escape from, 164

   Broad Street Club in, 203–6, 215

   Carpathia’ s arrival in, 40

   Christopher Gibbs’s visit to, 343

   Chrysler Building in, 256

   containerization and, 336

   fireboats in, 175, 368

   Gibbs & Cox move in, 144–45

   Gibbs and Cox office in, 144–45, 170, 173, 177, 187, 189, 207, 224–25, 286, 298, 315, 321, 337, 350

   Gibbs brothers’ apartment in, 62, 98

   Gibbs’s returns to, 80, 243

   Leviathan’ s returns to, 91, 115, 124, 154

   Mauretania’ s arrival in, 32–33

   Morro Castle and, 119, 130

   Normandie in, 137–38

   Queen Mary in, 152, 153, 286

    real estate in, 35, 38, 47, 49, 181, 340

   Shipping Board office in, 77

   shipping trust and, 12, 23

   ticker-tape parade in, 315

   United States’ journey to, 278, 279, 283, 284, 286, 287–88, 317

   United States’ returns to, 313, 314–15, 318, 320–21, 353, 369–70

   United States’ trials and, 269

   Vaterland’ s arrivals in, 51

   Vera Gibbs in, 99–105, 242–43, 285, 313, 365

   World War II and, 164–66, 169, 173–78

New Yorker, 120, 265

New York Evening World, 68–69

New York Fire Department, 175, 368

New York Herald Tribune, 235, 264, 265, 296, 304, 314

New York Journal American, 175–76

New York Maritime Academy, 51, 93–94, 349

New York Shipbuilding, 139

New York Times, 6, 14, 22, 102, 111, 121–22, 124, 127, 189, 321, 331, 338

   on Andrea Doria, 333

   Design 12201/United States and, 223–24, 268, 269, 277, 287, 304–5, 311, 347

   on Leviathan, 88, 90

   on Morro Castle fire, 132

New York Times Magazine, 240

Nolan, Frank, 329–30

Norddeutscher Lloyd, 9, 12, 24, 27, 30, 62, 97, 213

   Bremen of, 120–24, 164–65

Normandie, 122, 123, 136–39, 152, 156, 200, 210