Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist...
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Howard Hughes Holdings Inc., formerly the Howard Hughes Corporation, is a real estate development and management company based in The Woodlands, Texas...
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded in 1953...
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"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...
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The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California...
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The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 American made-for-television biographical film about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on...
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Howard Hughes (1905–1976) was an American aviator, movie producer, and industrialist Howard Hughes may also refer to: Howard R. Hughes Sr. (1869–1924)...
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Howard Hughes is a British podcaster and former radio presenter and radio journalist. Hughes presents The Unexplained, a podcast revolving around unexplained...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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journalist. The farm property has become the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which surrounds the house. The 289-acre (117 ha)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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executive who oversaw several entities for Howard Hughes. He was chairman of the board of directors of the Hughes Air Corporation. He served as a senior vice...
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Jean Peters (category Hughes family (United States))
Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second wife of Howard Hughes. Although possibly best remembered for her siren role in Pickup on South...
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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...
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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...
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miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989). He portrayed Howard Hughes in the CBS film The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977). He directed and starred in the western...
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