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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 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