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	Howard Hughes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is America's second largest private foundation and the largest devoted to biological and medical research with an endowment of $12.8 billion as of September 2005.
		Hughes had contracted syphilis as a young man, and much of the strange behavior at the end of his life — his well-documented aversion to handshaking, for example — has been attributed by modern biographers to the tertiary stage of that disease.
		Hughes is interred in the Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howard_Hughes (6812 words)

	Historic Houston: Great Houstonians: Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.
		Howard Hughes, Jr., the heir to the Hughes' $871,000 fortune and patent for a drill bit used in oil and gas drilling that brought large revenues to the family's Hughes Tool Company, was to later become a world renowned aviator, moviemaker, entrepreneur and reclusive billionaire before his death in April 1976.
		Howard R. Hughes, Jr., insisted that his crew of two navigators, his radio man, and his mechanic, along with their wives be include in the parade, as well as the seventeen technicians who feed him data during the flight.
		Howard Hughes, Jr., suffered a nervous breakdown in 1944 and was critically injured in the crash of his experimental military plane in 1946, but he recovered and flew the huge seaplane the next year, blunting the congressional investigation of his war contracts.
	www.houstonhistory.com /ghoustonians/history8n.htm (5504 words)

	BookRags: Howard Robard Hughes Biography
		Howard Robard Hughes (1905-1976) was a flamboyant entreprenuer who used an inherited fortune to achieve a national reputation in the motion picture and aviation industries, remaining in the news in later years because of his paranoid concern for privacy.
		Hughes suffered a nervous breakdown in 1944 and was critically injured in the crash of his experimental military plane in 1946, but he recovered and flew the huge seaplane the next year, blunting the congressional investigation of his war contracts.
		Hughes refused to appear in court or even give a deposition, and in a 1963 antitrust case over his ownership of 78 percent of TWA, his failure to appear resulted in a default ruling that led him to sell his holdings in 1966.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/howard-robard-hughes (979 words)

	Hughes Aircraft
		Howard Hughes, a unique American, created a group of companies that built airplanes, helicopters, missiles, and satellites; designed radar systems; and provided weaponry and communications equipment.
		Hughes' most famous aircraft was an oversized wooden seaplane nicknamed the "Spruce Goose." The idea for a fleet of such planes was conceived in 1942 by shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser, whose Liberty ships had become targets for German U-boats.
		Hughes Space and Communications continued building satellites until it was purchased by Boeing in 2000 and became Boeing Satellite Systems.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Hughes/Aero44.htm (1836 words)

	HOWARD ROBARD HUGHES AVIATOR AND THE SPRUCE GOOSE
		Hughes was called to testify before the Senate War Investigating Committee to explain why the plane had not been delivered to the United States Air Force during the war, however, the committee disbanded without releasing a final report.
		Hughes had contracted syphilis as a young man, and much of the strange behavior at the end of his life has been attributed by modern biographers to the tertiary stage of that disease.
		Howard Hughes is interred in the Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Texas.
	www.solarnavigator.net /inventors/howard_hughes.htm (5099 words)

	The Matter of Howard Hughes
		Howard Robard Hughes, Jr, was the legendary bizarre billionaire industrialist, who died intestate (without a valid will found and probated) on April 5, 1976 and it appears it may be shown his worse nightmare, "the lawyers would steal his money", became true.
		Howard Hughes earned his initial wealth and fame by running successful companies, producing movies such as "Scarface," and breaking several world records as a pilot in the 1930s.
		It proved to be a grand fake, the legend of reclusive Howard Hughes grew, and Irving went to jail.
	www.apfn.org /enron/hughes.htm (2115 words)

	Howard Hughes
		Scarface (1932) was censored until Hughes sued to allow its release, and The Outlaw (1941) became controversial for its sexually explicit advertising and content, both featuring a sensational décolletage worn by a busty Jane Russell.
		It was in the '30s that Hughes built the Texas Theater, the movie house in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas in which Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in 1963.
		Whatever the purpose of the break-in, Hughes was right in the middle of the major forces linking the conspiracies that resulted in the murders and character assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, and the Watergate scandal that toppled the Nixon administration.
	www.famoustexans.com /howardhughes.htm (1762 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Howard Hughes, aviator, movie producer, and billionaire, was born in Houston, Texas, on Christmas Eve 1905 to Allene (Gano) and Howard Robard Hughes, Sr.
		Hughes declared the goal impossible to meet, and the contract was canceled.
		Howard Hughes Medical Institute was given ownership of Hughes Aircraft and sold it to General Motors in 1985 for $5 billion.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/HH/fhu60.html (1839 words)

	Biography: Howard Hughes
		Howard Hughes, the son of Howard Robard Hughes, was born in Houston on 24th December, 1905.
		Hughes became involved in politics and was a secret supporter of Richard Nixon.
		Howard Hughes was called to Washington D.C. to defend both the project and himself.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKhughesH.htm (3528 words)

	Historic Houston: Great Houstonians: Howard Robard Hughes, Sr.
		Hughes revolutionized the process of drilling for oil with his invention of the first rotary rock bit.
		Hughes died on January 14, 1924, at the age of 54, leaving the bulk of his million dollar estate to his son, Howard Robard Hughes, Jr., an eighteen-year old student at Rice Institute.
		Howard Senior is buried next to his beloved wife Allene and infamous son, Howard Hughes, Jr., in Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, Texas.
	www.houstonhistory.com /ghoustonians/history8m.htm (365 words)

	Howard Robard Hughes
		Hughes, Howard Robard, 1905–76, U.S. business executive, b.
		His interest in aviation led to the formation of the Hughes Aircraft Corp. in the 1930s, which later became a major U.S. defense contractor.
		Through his parent concern, the Hughes Tool Company, he gained a controlling interest in Trans World Airways (TWA); when he divested himself of his TWA stock in 1966, he received $546.5 million.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0824455.html (241 words)

	Hughes Howard Robard - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hughes Howard Robard - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Hughes, Howard Robard (1905-1976), American manufacturer, pilot, and film producer, born in Houston, Texas, and educated at Rice Institute and the...
		In 1949 Lollobrigida moved to the United States for a contract with the producer Howard Hughes, but he did not cast her in any films and she returned...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Hughes_Howard_Robard.html (112 words)

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