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