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  Levin, Gerald

  Levy, David

  Lewis, Beverly

  Lewis, Henry Harrison

  Lewis, Joe

  Lewis, Moses and Bride

  Lewis and Clark Bridge

  life insurance

  Littell, Edmund

  Llewellyn Iron Works

  locals, union. See unions

  Loop, Chicago

  Los Angeles

  Los Angeles Times

  luck

  “Lunchtime on a Beam” photograph

  Lutheran All-Faiths Cemetery

  Lynch, Bernard

  McClintic-Marshall

  McClure, John

  McComber, Alec “One-More-Piece,”

  McComber, Dominick

  McComber, Gerald

  McComber, Keith “Bunny Eyes,”

  McComber, Kenneth “Weedy,”

  McComber, Robert

  McCord, Robert

  McCullough, David

  McGlade, Arthur

  McKee, Gerard

  McMahon, John

  McManigal, Ortie

  McNamara, James

  McNamara, John

  Maennerchor Hall

  Mahoney, Frankie

  Maloney, Joseph

  Manhattan. See New York City

  Manhattan Bridge

  man-hoists. See also elevators

  “Mannahatta,”

  Manning, Cork

  Marcus, Silvian

  Marsalis, Wynton

  Martin, Jeff “J. Kid,”

  Martin, J. J.

  masonry skyscrapers. See also skyscrapers

  masts

  matrimony. See also women

  mauls

  Mendelson, Richard

  “Men on a Beam” photograph

  Metropolitan Life Tower

  midair murder

  Mitchell, Joseph

  Mitchell,Tommy

  Mohawk Indians. See also Kahnawake (Mohawk Indian reservation)

  Black Bridge and rites of passage

  K. Brown and M. Davis as

  as early ironworkers

  hard hats

  history of

  K. McComber as (see McComber, Keith “Bunny Eyes”)

  Monday mornings for

  move of, into New York City

  in New York City

  Monadnock Building

  monday mauls

  Moore, Billy

  Morgan, J. P.

  Moses, Robert

  movie, ironworker

  Mullet,Ray

  Mumford, Lewis

  Munch Chunk. See Woodring, William “Munch Chunk”

  murder, midair. See also violence

  music

  National Erectors’ Association (NEA)

  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

  Neidig, Robert

  Nevins Bar and Grill

  Newbury, Charles

  Newfoundland. See also Newfoundlanders

  Conception Bay

  fishing and sealing industry

  ruggedness of

  stranded airline passengers in

  Newfoundlanders. See also Newfoundland

  early ironworkers

  Joe Lewis as

  in New York City

  New York City

  arrival of Sam Parks, (see also Parks, Sam)

  Chicago vs., as skyscraper capital, (see also Chicago)

  early fatalities in

  first steel-frame skyscrapers in

  ironworkers in, (see also ironworkers)

  Mohawks in

  native ironworkers in

  Newfoundlanders in

  skyline in early 1900s

  skyline in late 1880s

  skyscrapers (see skyscrapers)

  steel construction boom in

  Nicholson, Jack

  Nixon, Richard

  Norris, Margaret

  North Gowanus neighborhood

  Norwegians

  Nucor Corporation

  Oasis

  occupational drinking cultures. See also drinking

  Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). See also safety

  O’Kane, George

  open shop industries

  O’Rielly, John

  Otis, Elijah

  Otis, General Harrison Gray

  Otistown. See Los Angeles

  O’Toole, William

  overbuilt bridges

  over-deflection

  Oxford English Dictionary

  Park Row Building

  Parks, Dora

  Parks, Sam

  arrests and conviction of

  death of

  grafting of

  grave of

  return of, from prison

  spirit of

  tuberculosis of

  unions and steel industry

  as walking delegate

  pay. See wages

  Petit, Philippe

  Petronas Towers

  Phillips, Jeff

  Phillips, J. R.

  Phoenix Bridge Company. See also Quebec Bridge

  photographs

  pin-connection method

  Pinkerton detectives

  Plenty, Josephus

  plumbing-up gang

  Poole, Ernest

  Poore, C. G.

  Pope, Thomas

  Portla, John

  Portman, John

  Post, George B.

  Post, William

  Post & McCord

  Poulson, Neils

  Principles of Scientific Management, The

  pushers

  Quebec Bridge

  Quebec Bridge Company

  Quinlan, Willie

  quitting

  race into the sky

  race relations

  railroad bridges. See also bridges

  rain

  Rainbow Bridge

  raising gangs

  competition and, (see also competition)

  Time Warner Center

  work of

  Random House building

  Raskob, John Jacob

  RCA Building

  reinforced concrete, steel vs.

  Reynolds, H. G.

  Rich and Famous Deli

  Richards, Morgan

  rigging

  rigidity

  Ritchie, Bill

  rivet gangs

  Robbins, Danny

  Rock, The. See Newfoundland

  Rockefeller Center

  Rockhold, Paul

  Roebling, John

  Roebling, Washington

  roughnecks. See also bridgemen; ironworkers

  rubella

  Ryan, John

  saddles, suspension bridge

  Saeger, Charles

  safety

  safety elevators

  safety gang

  sailors, as ironworkers

  St. Vincent’s Hospital

  San Francisco Bay Bridge

  Sarandon, Susan

  scaffolds, bridge

  scale boxes

  Scally, Kevin

  Scandinavians

  Scott, Leroy

  seagulling

  sealing (swiling)

  Sears Tower

  Seinuk, Ysrael

  September 11 destruction of World Trade Center. See also World Trade Center

  setters. See also connectors

  Severance, H. Craig

  shanty

  Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  Shields, Brooke

  signalman job

  Silverstein, Larry A.

  Singer Tower

  Six Nations

  Sizer, William

  skeleton-girder bridges

  skycranes

  skylarking

  Skyscraper (movie)

  skyscrapers. See also ironworkers

  attitudes toward early

  concrete in Time Warner

  concrete vs. steel in

  deflection of

  development of Chicago
/>   development of New York

  development of steel-frame, from bridges, (see also bridges)

  early building methods

  first steel-frame, in Chicago and New York

  golden age of

  skyscrapers (cont.)

  masonry

  modern building methods and World Trade Center

  movie about

  prospects for, after destruction of World Trade Center

  summits

  tallest

  Time Warner Center (see Time Warner Center)

  World Trade Center (see World Trade Center)

  smallpox

  Smith, Al

  Smith’s Bar

  snake

  Snook Inn

  Snow, Chad

  Soberanes, Jerry

  Sonnenstuhl, William

  spacing out

  speed

  bridge building

  raising gang

  skyscraper construction

  spinning

  Splicer, John

  squareheads

  squeezers

  Starrett, Paul

  Starrett, William

  Starrett Brothers & Eken

  steel

  in bridges, (see also bridges)

  concrete vs.

  iron vs.

  removing, from World Trade Center disaster

  steel-frame skyscrapers, (see also skyscrapers)

  in Time Warner building

  walking

  wires in suspension bridges

  workers (see bridgemen; ironworkers)

  steel industry

  decline of

  unions and, (see also Parks, Sam)

  United States

  steelworkers. See ironworkers

  Steffens, Lincoln

  Steiglitz, Alfred

  Stewart, Michael

  strikes. See also unions

  S. Parks and

  Quebec Bridge and

  violence and

  structural engineers. See also Cooper, Theodore

  structural ironworkers. See ironworkers

  Subpart R Steel Erection Standard

  Sullivan, Louis

  summit, skyscraper

  superintendent job

  Supple, Harry

  suspension bridges. See also bridges

  Swedes

  swiling (sealing)

  Szlapka, Peter

  Tacoma Narrows Bridge

  Taft-Hartley Act

  tag line

  tagline man job

  Talese, Gay

  tallest skyscrapers. See also skyscrapers

  Chrysler Building vs. Bank of Manhattan

  Empire State Building

  Metropolitan Life Tower

  Petronas Towers

  Sears Tower

  Singer Tower

  Woolworth Building

  World Trade Center, (see also World Trade Center)

  Tammany Hall

  Taylor, Frederick

  Taylorism

  tension

  terminal velocity

  terrorists, destruction of World Trade Center by. See also World Trade Center

  Terry, Norman

  Thornton, Charles

  Thornton-Tomasetti Group

  Times Square. See Ernst & Young building

  Time Warner Center

  Christmas fight at

  design of

  hole of

  ironworker dangers at

  ironworker frustrations at

  ironworkers from, at World Trade Center disaster

  ironworker skills at

  lack of steel at

  Monday mornings for ironworkers at

  raising gangs of

  safety at

  status of ironworkers after finishing

  superintendent job at

  topping out of

  walking bosses at

  winter weather at

  work at, after destruction of World Trade Center

  topping out, Time Warner Center

  Tower Building

  tower cranes

  Tracy, Jack

  Tracy, Mickey

  Treahy, Frank “Red,”

  Triborough Bridge

  Trinity Building

  Trinity Church

  Trump, Donald

  Trump World Tower

  truss bridges

  trusses

  Time Warner building

  World Trade Center

  trust

  tuberculosis

  tubes, framed

  tying off

  unions

  attempts to break

  Bloody Friday hard-hat riots and

  Chicago

  Chicago Local

  cleanup of World Trade Center disaster and

  Davis-Bacon Act and Wagner Act

  decline of

  dynamite conspiracy of

  history of, for ironworkers

  Los Angeles and

  Mohawk Indians and

  Newfoundlanders and

  New York City Local

  New York City Local

  New York City Local

  New York City membership book

  steel industry and

  strikes (see strikes)

  violence and, (see also violence)

  walking delegate Sam Parks and (see Parks, Sam)

  United Building Trades

  United Housesmiths’ and Bridgemen’s Union of New York and Vicinity

  U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations

  U.S. Commission on Labor Relations

  U.S. Steel building

  U.S. Steel Corporation (USX)

  unit stress

  Van Alen, William

  Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

  vertical integration

  vestibular-ocular reflex

  Victoria Bridge

  Vietnam War, Bloody Friday and

  violence

  Christmas fight at Time Warner Center

  dynamite conspiracy

  hard-hat riots

  midair murder

  union organizing and

  unions and

  Viollet-le-Duc

  wages

  bridgemen

  bridgemen, on Quebec Bridge

  ironworker

  workers compensation and

  Wagner Act

  walking boss job

  Walking Delegate, The (book)

  walking delegate job. See also Parks, Sam

  walking steel

  Walsh, Agnes

  Walsh, Eddie

  Walters, Barbara

  Ward, Joseph

  warriors, Mohawk ironworkers as. See also Mohawk Indians

  weather

  fog

  heat

  ice

  Newfoundland

  rain