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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