Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist...
138 KB (16,062 words) - 07:53, 1 September 2024
Howard Hughes Holdings Inc., formerly the Howard Hughes Corporation, is a real estate development and management company based in The Woodlands, Texas...
13 KB (1,148 words) - 15:27, 10 August 2024
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded in 1953...
15 KB (1,335 words) - 18:49, 29 August 2024
Howard Hughes (1905–1976) was an American aviator, movie producer, and industrialist Howard Hughes may also refer to: Howard R. Hughes Sr. (1869–1924)...
619 bytes (106 words) - 20:02, 1 January 2024
"Sharp–Hughes" two-cone rotary drill bit during the Texas Oil Boom. Hughes was the father and namesake of Howard Hughes (Howard Robard Hughes Jr.) the...
13 KB (1,283 words) - 12:20, 27 May 2024
The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California...
35 KB (3,523 words) - 05:23, 24 August 2024
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 American made-for-television biographical film about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on...
9 KB (1,020 words) - 22:52, 22 August 2024
Hughes Aircraft completed final assembly, they erected a hangar around the flying boat, with a ramp to launch the H-4 into the harbor. Howard Hughes was...
26 KB (2,851 words) - 15:48, 25 July 2024
Las Vegas Ballpark (redirect from Howard Hughes Ballpark)
purchased by Summerlin Las Vegas Baseball Club LLC, a joint venture of Howard Hughes Corp. and Play Ball Owners Group, including investors Steve Mack, Bart...
18 KB (1,868 words) - 15:43, 10 August 2024
military designs. During his work on his 1930 movie Hell's Angels, Howard Hughes employed Glenn Odekirk to maintain the fleet of over 100 aircraft used...
18 KB (2,008 words) - 17:29, 6 August 2024
Murder of Sophie Hook (redirect from Howard Hughes (murderer))
her body was found washed up on a nearby beach several hours later. Howard Hughes was arrested for the murder soon afterwards, and sentenced to life imprisonment...
24 KB (2,992 words) - 12:08, 17 February 2024
The Hughes XF-11 (redesignated XR-11 in 1948) was a prototype military reconnaissance aircraft designed and flown by Howard Hughes and built by Hughes Aircraft...
29 KB (3,795 words) - 20:01, 1 August 2024
the beneficiary of $156 million in a will allegedly handwritten by Howard Hughes that was discovered in the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ...
17 KB (1,724 words) - 05:44, 24 August 2024
The company was established in December 1908 as Sharp-Hughes Tool Company when Howard R. Hughes Sr. patented a roller cutter bit that dramatically improved...
11 KB (1,134 words) - 10:14, 24 August 2024
The Aviator (2004 film) (category Cultural depictions of Howard Hughes)
Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner...
48 KB (4,972 words) - 20:18, 2 September 2024
Discovered at age 16 by media and aircraft mogul Howard Hughes, she was signed to a contract with Hughes's RKO Radio Pictures and cast as the lead in the...
24 KB (1,937 words) - 04:06, 18 August 2024
Jean Simmons (section Howard Hughes and Victor Mature)
telling Hughes over the phone: "Mr. Howard bloody Hughes, you'll be sorry if you don't leave my wife alone." To punish Simmons and Granger, Hughes refused...
43 KB (3,319 words) - 17:54, 1 September 2024
Jack Real (section Involvement with Howard Hughes)
Real (May 31, 1915 – September 6, 2005) was an aerospace pioneer and Howard Hughes confidant. After graduating from Calumet High School in Calumet, Michigan...
10 KB (1,160 words) - 03:25, 11 September 2023
Robert Maheu (section Howard Hughes)
and as the chief executive of Nevada operations for the industrialist Howard Hughes. Maheu was born in Waterville, Maine, the son of Christine and Ephrem...
12 KB (1,330 words) - 14:09, 17 August 2024
to Irving by billionaire recluse Howard Hughes. The fictional work was to have been published in 1972. After Hughes denounced him and sued the publisher...
25 KB (2,424 words) - 18:15, 1 June 2024
books and essays about Howard Hughes: Barlett, Donald L. (1 January 1981). Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes. W. W. Norton, Incorporated...
1 KB (105 words) - 08:18, 2 November 2018
acquisitions. The Hughes Tool Company was founded in 1908 by business partners Walter Benona Sharp and Howard R. Hughes, Sr., father of Howard Hughes, Jr. That...
42 KB (4,119 words) - 02:05, 23 July 2024
Angeles. In the 1940s, the aviator Howard Hughes bought the site and constructed a private airfield runway, named Hughes Airport, and an aircraft factory...
35 KB (2,998 words) - 03:07, 4 September 2024
business magnate Howard Hughes, who directed her first major role in Hell's Angels (1930). After a series of critically failed films, and Hughes' loss of interest...
60 KB (6,959 words) - 15:47, 2 September 2024
John H. Meier (redirect from Age of Secrets: The Conspiracy that Toppled Richard Nixon and the Hidden Death of Howard Hughes)
now living in Vancouver, Canada. He is noted for his involvement with Howard Hughes, for his behind-the-scenes involvement in events that precipitated President...
11 KB (1,313 words) - 06:25, 19 March 2024
RKO Pictures (redirect from Howard Hughes Presents)
Nicholas Musuraca, and designer Van Nest Polglase. Maverick industrialist Howard Hughes took over RKO in 1948. After years of disarray and decline under his...
151 KB (19,786 words) - 11:17, 29 August 2024
Eight Ball. As Miss Eight Ball, she was discovered by film producer Howard Hughes, who put her in the RKO films His Kind of Woman (1951), Two Tickets...
56 KB (6,667 words) - 08:22, 29 August 2024
The Hughes Airport (IATA: CVR) was a private airport owned by Howard Hughes for the Hughes Aircraft Company. It was located just north of the Westchester...
6 KB (463 words) - 09:31, 16 September 2023
The Hughes D-2 was an American fighter and bomber project begun by Howard Hughes as a private venture. It never proceeded past the flight testing phase...
12 KB (1,673 words) - 13:34, 9 July 2023
and music composer. He was the brother of Howard R. Hughes Sr. and uncle of billionaire Howard R. Hughes Jr. His three-volume scholarly biography of...
24 KB (2,651 words) - 17:13, 9 June 2024