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accidents.
See also
falling; fatalities

bridgemen

compensation for

dangers of, for ironworkers

Ernst & Young building

(
see also
Conklin, Brett)

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’s

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