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  safety measures and, (see also safety)

  Time Warner Center

  World Trade Center

  acrophobia. See also falling

  Adamic, Louis

  ADF Group Inc.

  Adirondack Northway

  African-Americans

  Akwesasnes Indians

  alcohol. See drinking

  Ali, Dr. Mir M.

  Ambassador Bridge

  American Board of Indian Commissioners

  American Bridge Company

  American method

  American Psychological Association

  American Tract Society Building

  Ammann, Othmar

  anchorages

  Apologies to the Iroquois

  appraisers

  Arbitrator (bulldog)

  Arthur Andersen building

  Ashtabula railroad bridge collapse

  Auden, W. H.

  autonomy

  Backett, George

  balance

  Bank of Manhattan building

  Barker, Chett

  baseball

  Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF)

  bays

  beams

  Bear Stearns building

  beaters

  Beatty, Billy

  Beauvais, Alex

  Beauvais, Walter

  Beckett, James

  Bedell, Charles

  bends

  Bennet, James

  Bernie’s Grocery

  Bessemer, Henry

  Bessemer Converter

  Bethlehem Steel

  Big Ben

  Birger, William

  Birkmire, William

  Black Bear tavern

  Black Bridge

  black ironworkers

  Bloody Friday

  Bloomberg Media building

  Board of Building Trades

  bolting-up gang

  book, union

  boomers

  bridgemen as

  columns as

  ironworkers as

  booming out, Mohawks and

  booms

  Bossom, Alfred

  Bovis Lend-Lease

  Bowers, George, Jr.

  Bowers, Jim

  Boyd, William

  Brady, Dick

  Brandt, Louis

  Brennan, Peter

  Brice, J. B. See McNamara, James

  bridgemen

  early ironworkers as, (see also ironworkers)

  on George Washington Bridge

  Mohawks as

  unions (see unions)

  on Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

  work of

  Bridgemen’s Magazine, The

  bridges. See also bridgemen; ironworkers

  building early

  collapse of Quebec Bridge

  early steel

  first steel

  George Washington Bridge

  railroad, as inspiration for steel-frame skyscrapers, (see also skyscrapers)

  Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

  Brooklyn. See also New York City

  Mohawks in

  Newfoundlanders in

  Brooklyn Bridge

  Brown, Keith

  Buchanan, Frank

  bucker-up

  Buffington, L. S.

  Building Age, The

  Building and Construction Trades Council of New York

  buildings. See skyscrapers

  Building Trade Employers’ Association

  bullstick man

  Bunny Eyes. See McComber, Keith “Bunny Eyes”

  Burke, Bobby

  Burnham, Daniel H.

  Burns, William

  Bush, George W.

  Butler, Michael

  Cabot, John

  Cadman, Reverend S. Parkes

  caisson diggers

  Canadian Pacific Railroad

  Canadian Pacific Railroad bridge

  cantilever bridges

  Cantor Seinuk Group

  Capelin weather

  capital vs. labor

  carbon

  Carnegie, Andrew

  carriage, suspension bridge

  cast iron

  catchers

  Cathedral of Commerce

  Catholicism

  catwalks, suspension bridge

  Caughnawaga. See Kahnawake (Mohawk Indian reservation)

  Center of Everything. See Time Warner Center

  Champlain Bridge

  Charles, David “Chappie,”

  Chase Manhattan Building

  Chaucer

  Chicago

  development of skyscrapers in

  early fatalities in

  first skyscrapers in

  New York City vs., as skyscraper

  Chicago (cont.)

  capital, 49–50 (see also New York City)

  unions in

  chokers

  Chrysler, Walter

  Chrysler Building

  civil rights

  clear (center) span

  climbing columns

  cloud sketchers

  cod fishing

  Cohen, Dr. Bernard

  Cole, Jim

  Coliseum

  Coliseum Bar and Grill

  collapses, bridge

  collective bargaining

  Collins, Glenn

  Collins, John

  columns

  columns, climbing

  communications industry

  competition

  compression

  computers

  Conception Bay, See also Newfoundland

  concrete, steel vs., See also steel

  Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge

  Condé Nast Building

  Conklin, Brett

  connectors

  K. Brown and M. Davis as

  climbing columns

  danger and

  job of, in raising gangs

  rain and

  setters as

  Time Warner building

  tying off and

  walking steel

  consumption (tuberculosis)

  Conway, Lorraine

  cooning

  Cooper, Slim

  Cooper, Theodore

  Coppola, Dr. S. Thomas

  Corbett, Harvey Wilson

  Corbett, Ray

  corruption, union. See dynamite conspiracy; Parks, Sam

  Cory, Reverend David

  Costello, Jack and Kitty

  Costello, Ray

  Costello, Tim

  Covan, George

  cranes

  as airborne stretchers

  crawler

  helicopter skycranes

  kangaroo

  tower

  World Trade Center disaster and

  crawler cranes

  crucible steel. See also steel

  Cuba

  Cullen, John

  cultural atavism, Mohawk

  curtain wall technology

  Curtis, Joe

  Curtis-Clark, Thomas

  Customs House

  Cuyler Presbyterian Church

  D’Aillebouts, Joseph

  danger. See accidents; falling; fatalities

  Darrow, Clarence

  Davis, Marvin

  Davis-Bacon Act of 1931

  Deans, John

  deaths. See fatalities

  deckers

  decking gang

  deflection, skyscraper

  Delaware River Bridge

  delegates, walking. See also Parks, Sam

  DeMille film company

  Depression

  derrick floor

  derricks

  detail gangs

  Devery, William K.“Big Chief,”

  Diablo, Paul

  Diabo, Johnny

  DiPietro,Ron

  diversity

  Dominion Bridge Company

  Donohue, Danny

  Doyle, Danny

  Doyle, George

  Doyle, Jack

  Doyle, Leo

  Doyle�
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  Drew, Walter

  drinking

  Dynamite (book)

  dynamite conspiracy

  Eads, James Buchanan

  Eads Bridge

  Eckner, Joseph

  economics

  education

  Eick, Joseph

  Eidlitz, Charles

  Eiffel Tower

  elevators

  bridge

  construction

  safety

  Emerson, Jimmy

  Emerson, Joe

  Emerson, Louis Lee

  Emerson, Mike

  Emerson, Tommy

  Empire State Building

  engineers, structural. See also Cooper, Theodore

  English, Newfoundlander

  Ernst & Young building

  exposure therapy

  extortion. See also Parks, Sam

  falling. See also accidents; fatalities

  bridgemen and dangers of

  K. Brown’s fall

  B. Conklin’s fall

  connectors and

  fear of

  J. Gaffney’s fall

  as going into the hole

  ironworkers and dangers of

  at Random House building

  at World Trade Center

  falsework

  Farrington, E. F.

  fatalities. See also accidents

  Arthur Andersen building

  Brooklyn Bridge

  compensation and

  Delaware River Bridge

  early ironworker

  Empire State Building

  falls and, (see also falling)

  George Washington Bridge

  ironworker jobs and

  Mohawk

  Newfoundlander

  Quebec Bridge

  reduction of ironworker, (see also safety)

  Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

  World Trade Center

  fearlessness, Mohawk

  field day competitions

  fighting. See violence

  Firth of Forth bridge

  Fish. See Newfoundlanders

  fixers

  flanges

  Flatiron Building

  float

  Floaters

  floors, skyscraper

  fog

  Fortune, Bill

  framed tubes

  Frick, Henry Clay

  Frielich, Morris

  Fuller Building. See Flatiron Building

  Gaffney, Joe

  gangs. See also raising gangs

  General Specifications for Iron Railroad Bridges and Viaducts

  George A. Fuller Company

  George Washington Bridge

  Gilbert, Bradford

  Gilbert, Cass

  Glasgow (Missouri) bridge

  going into the hole. See also falling

  Golden Gate Bridge

  Gompers, Samuel

  Gosselin, Victor “Frenchy,”

  Grace, Patrick

  graft, union. See also Parks, Sam

  Grand Central Building

  Grant, Luke

  Grottle, Mike

  Haley, D. B.

  Hall, Ingwall

  Handsome Lake

  Hansen, Harmon

  happiness

  hard-hat riots

  hard hats

  harpies

  Harriman, Job

  Hartley, Hal

  Hartley, Pat

  heat

  heaters

  Hebler, Henry

  Hecla Iron Works

  heights. See also falling

  ironworkers and

  Mohawks and

  helicopter cranes

  Hell’s Gate Bridge

  heroes, ironworkers as

  Hine, Lewis Wickes

  Hoare, E. A.

  Hockin, Harry

  hole

  Homeguard

  Home Insurance Building

  hooker-ons

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Horn, Ky

  Hot Wrench connectors

  housesmiths. See also ironworkers

  Housesmiths’ and Bridgemen’s Society. See also Parks, Sam

  Housesmiths Mutual Protection Association

  Iannielli, Edward

  Icarus high up on Empire State

  ice

  idleness

  illegal immigration

  injuries. See accidents; falling; fatalities

  Institute of the Ironworking Industry

  International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers

  International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers

  Irish

  iron. See also steel

  ironworkers

  accident dangers for, (see also accidents)

  bars and drinking

  beating the wow

  bridgemen as early, (see also bridgemen)

  climbing columns

  B. Conklin’s life as

  dangers of falling, (see also falling)

  deaths of (see fatalities)

  diversity of

  first steel-frame skyscrapers and

  frustrations of

  gangs

  on George Washington Bridge

  golden age for

  as heroes

  New York City, (see also New York City)

  Monday mornings for, at Time Warner Center, (see also Time Warner Center)

  Mohawk Indians as (see Kahnawake [Mohawk Indian reservation]; Mohawk Indians)

  Newfoundlanders as (see Newfoundlanders)

  raising gangs, (see also raising gangs)

  as roughnecks

  skills

  skyscraper building boom and reputation of

  status of, after fall of World Trade Center

  superintendent job

  unions of, (see also unions)

  on Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

  violence of (see violence)

  union walking delegate Sam Parks (see Parks, Sam)

  walking boss job

  walking steel

  at World Trade Center (see World Trade Center)

  young men as

  Iroquois Confederacy

  I-shape

  Jacobs, Paul “Punchy,”

  James, Henry

  Jay Treaty

  Jazz Center

  Jenney, William LeBaron

  Jerome, William Travers

  Jeter, Derek

  Jocks, Joe

  John Hancock Center

  journalists

  jungles

  Kahnawake (Mohawk Indian reservation). See also Mohawk Indians

  collapse of Quebec Bridge

  drive between Manhattan and

  history of

  as home for Mohawk ironworkers

  memories of oldest ex-ironworker

  Mohawks as bridgemen

  move of Mohawks to New York City

  search for K. McComber

  welcome of World Trade Center workers

  kangaroo cranes

  Kelly, James L.

  Kennedy, Joe

  Kennedy, Pat

  Kent State University

  Keystone Bridge Company

  Khan, Fazlur

  Kilgore, Howard

  Killarney

  Kirby, Frank

  Kugler, Matt

  Labor Day parade

  labor unions. See unions

  Lachapelle, Theodore

  lacrosse

  Lajeunesse, Delphis

  Lajeunesse, Eugene

  Lane, Frank

  Larrasey’s general store

  Lawson, John

  leading edge

  Lebarge, Oscar