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by Marc Levinson

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  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the e-Book. Please use the search function on your e-Reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  AFL-CIO

  Africa

  Airline Navigators’Association

  airplanes

  Alabama State Docks

  Alameda, CA

  Alaska

  Alaska Barge and Transport Company

  Alaska Freight Lines

  Alaska Steamship Company

  Aluminum Company of America

  American Bureau of Shipping

  American Export Isbrandtsen Line

  American Export Lines

  American Federation of Labor. See also AFL-CIO

  American Federation of Musicians

  American Foundation on Automation and Employment

  American-Hawaiian Steamship Company

  American Independence Line

  American Independent Oil Company

  American Lancer

  American Magazine

  American President Lines

  American Standards Association; MH-5 Committee; Standards Review Board

  Amsterdamn

  Anastasia, Anthony

  animal skins, rates for

  Antwerp

  apparel trade

  Army, U.S. See United States Army

  Asia: economics of serving; and Europe routes; and North American routes; port development in

  Associated Steamships

  Atlantic Container Line

  Atlantic States Motor Lines

  Auckland, New Zealand

  Australia: container services to; and early containerization; and freight rates; labor in; railroads in; and trade patterns

  Australian Maritime Services Board


  Australian Stevedoring Board

  automation, as social issue

  automobiles

  aviation

  Baltimore; containership service from; geographic advantages and disadvantages of; labor issues in

  Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

  Barbie

  Basel

  Belgium

  Bell, Peter

  Ben Line

  Besson, Frank

  Betamax video players

  Bethlehem Steel

  Bienville

  Bingham, Jonathan

  Bonner, Herbert

  borax shipments

  Borruey, René

  Boston

  Bowers, John

  Bradley, “Captain” William

  Brando, Marlon

  breakbulk ships; containers on; economics of; and rate structures; in Vietnam service

  Bremen

  Bremerhaven

  Bridges, Harry

  British Transport Docks Board

  Brooklyn; economic decline of; manufacturing in; new piers in, and port traffic; ship lines relocating from; waterfront of

  Brooklyn Navy Yard

  Brown, Leo

  Brown Industries

  Brynjolfsson, Erik

  Bull Line

  Busan, Korea

  C-2 cargo ships

  C-3 cargo ships

  C-4 cargo ships

  Cagney, James

  California

  Camas, WA

  Campbell, Robert

  Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam

  Canada

  cargo handling: automation of; before containers; cost of; economics of; in Vietnam. See also shipping costs

  Caribbean

  Caterpillar Tractor

  cells (for containers)

  Central of Georgia Railroad

  Chandler, Alfred D., Jr.

  Chang Yung-fa

  Charleston, SC

  Chase National Bank

  chassis

  cheese shipments

  Chelsea Piers

  Chester, PA

  Chicago

  China

  Chinitz, Benjamin

  Cho, Ting-Li

  Chopin, Alexander

  cigarettes

  Cincinnati Motor Terminals Company

  City Investing Co.

  Coastwise Steamship Company

  Coe, Davidn

  computers: and administration; and container system design; shipper use of; and vessel loading

  Conex boxes

  conferences; and container rates; weakness of

  Congress of Industrial Organizations

  Connecticut

  Consolidated Freightways

  consortia

  Container Marine Lines

  container yards

  containers: for airplanes; consolidation of; design of; dimensions of; disappearance and abandonment of; diversity of; duties on; early; economic impact of; McLean concept of; and market share; number of; at Pan Atlantic; shipper adaptation to; social consequences of; stacking of; stripping and stuffing of weight limits for. See also standardization

  containerships: capacity of; cost of; design of early; economics of; financing for; first fully cellular; number of; in Pacific service; port time of; in round-the-world service SL-7; second generation of; size and speed of; standardization andn.; in transatlantic service; very large; in Vietnam War

  copper

  corner fittings

  cotton

  Cowie, Jefferson

  cranes: compatibility of; gantry; at Matson; movements of; trolleys on. See also spreader bars

  crews

  Crown Zellerbach Corp.

  Cuba

  Cullman, Howard

  Cunard Line

  Cushing, Charles

  Cushing, John E.

  customs inspection

  Czachowski, Bernard

  Da Nang, Vietnam

  Dart Container Line

  Dell

  DeLong pier

  Delta Steamship Co.

  Denmark

  deregulation

  Dewey, Thomas E.

  Dixon, George

  Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association

  Dravo Corp.

  Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  DuPont, E. I. de Nemours, & Co.

  Durban, South Africa

  East India Docks, London

  Eastman Kodak Company

  economic geography

  economies of scale

  Econships

  Edge, Walter

  Edinburgh, Scotland

  Edison, Thomas

  Egger, Cecil

  Eisenberg, Walter

  electricity, adoption of

  electronics shipments

  Elizabeth, NJ: as containerport; Sea-Land and; waterfront of before port constructionn

  Elizabethport

  Ellerman Line

  Erie and St. Lawrence Corporation

  Erie Canal

  Europe: container diversity in; economic growth of; North Atlantic shipping to; and standardization; and shipping to Asia and Australia

  European Common Market

  European Container Terminus

  Evergreen Marine

  Fairland

  Far Eastern Shipping Company

  Felixstowe, England

  Field, Fred

  Financial Times

  First Colony Farms

  Fishlow, Albertn

  Fitzgerald, Donald

  Flexivan Leasing

  Flynn, Stephen E.

  Fogel, Robert William

  Ford, Gerald

  Forgash, Morris

  freight forwarding

  Fremantle, Australia

  French national railway

  Frost, Dudley

  Fruehauf Trailer Company

  fuel costs

  Galveston, TX

  Garford Trucking

  Gateway City

  General Electric Company

  General Motors

  German Federal Railway

  German Liner Indexn

  Germany

  Gilman, Roger H.

  Gioia Tauro, Italy

  Glaeser, Edward L.

  Glasgow, Scotland

  Gleason, Thomas (Teddy): elected ILA president; and Guaranteed Annual Income; in 1959 negotiations; in 1962 negotiations; personal background of in Vietnam

  globalization

  Goldblatt, Louis

  Goldman, Jerome L.

  Grace Line; and combined passenger and freight service; and standardization; and Venezuela plan

  Grangemouth, Scodand

  Great Britain: and container traffic; railways in; and Singapore; and trade

  Great Western Railway

  Greece

  Greenwich Village, New York City

  Guaranteed Annual Income. See International Longshoremen’s Association

  Gulfport, MS

  Gulick J. W.

  Halberg, Herbert

  Hall, Herbert

  Hamburg, Germany

  Hampton Roads, VA

  Hansen, Wilhelm A. N.

  Hapag-Lloyd

  Harlander, Don

  Harlander, Leslie: and container standardization; and Matson planning

  Harriman, Averell

  Hawaii

  Hawaiian Citizen

  Hawaiian Merchant

  Healey, James

  Hecksher-Ohlin modeln

  Hinden, Eugene

  Hitt, Lorin M.

  Hoffer, Eric

  Holland-America Line

  Holland Tunnel

  Honda Motor Co. Hong Kong; port development in; and ship traffic

  Honolulu

  Houston: as major containerport; Pan-Atlantic service to

  Hoving, Thomas

  Ideal-X

  immigrants: among dockworkers; smuggling of

  Impellitteri, Vincent

  Inchon, Korea

  independent carriers. See nonconference carriers

 
India

  India House

  Indiana

  Indochina

  Indonesia

  Ingalls Shipyard

  innovation

  insurance: of containers; of trucks

  intermodal shipment

  International Container Bureau

  International Ladies’ Garment Workers

  International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union; and automation debate; and 1956 contract; leadership of; Matson plans and; and Mechanization and Modernization Agreement; relations of with ILA; and strikes; and wages; and work rules

  International Longshoremen’s Association: and arbitration and mediation; and containerization impact; and gang sizes; and Guaranteed Annual Income; and hiring priority; internal politics of; leadership of; and negotiations over automation; and 1962–1963 negotiations; and 1964 negotiations; New York piers and; and public loaders; racial and ethnic divisions in; recognition of; and strikes

  International Standards Organization

  International Typographers Union

  Internet

  Interstate Commerce Commission (U.S.): and deregulation; and McLean Industries; and railroad regulation; and rate settingn.; and truck regulation

  inventories

  Ireland

  Irish Shipping Limited

  Italy

  Jacksonville, FL

  Japan; and containerization plan; manufacturing in; and Sea-Land service; and service to Southeast Asia; and trade

  Japanese National Railway

  Johns Hopkins University

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Johnson Line

  Jones, Thomas Russell

  Jones Act

  just-in-time manufacturing

  Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  Katims, Ron

  Kaufman, Herbert

  Kempton, George

  Kempton, Murray

  Kennedy, John E.

  Kheel, Theodore

  Kidde (Walter) & Co.

  Killen, James S.

  King, A. Lyle

  Kobe, Japan

  Kohlhase, Janet E.

  Kooringa

  Korea

  Korea Shipping Company

  Ky, Nguyen Cao

  Laem Chabang

  Laird, Melvin

  landing ship tank (LST)

  Latin America

  leasing

  Le Havre, France

  Lesotho

  Levy, Jean

  Liberty Ships

  Life

  lighterage: in London; in New York Harbor; in Vietnam

 

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