Higgins Industries

The company also had a subsidiary architectural firm that designed manufacturing buildings - most famously the Michoud Assembly Facility.

[2] Higgins employed the first fully integrated working force of women and men, African Americans and whites in New Orleans.

[3] In 1964, Dwight D. Eisenhower said to historian Stephen Ambrose: "[Andrew Higgins] is the man who won the war for us.

Higgins ranked 70th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.

His sons (Ed, Andrew Jr., Frank, and Roland) continued the business through the 1950s, but mounting debts resulted in the sale of Higgins, Inc. to New York Ship in 1959.

Higgins Marine Sales Corporation continued at the old City Park Plant until 1970, when it moved to Thalia Street, where it operated for five more years before closing.