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Howard Hughes: Age
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Over the next decade, Hughes and TWA would profit from the tremendous success of the Constellation, and its successor, the Super Constellation. Seeking to take TWA into the jet age, Hughes in 1956 placed orders for a fleet of Boeing 707s at a cost of $400 million. Although wealthy, even Hughes would need to seek help in order to cover this huge expense. Outside creditors... required Hughes to give up total control of TWA. Unwilling to relinquish his power, and yet unable to cover the expenses, Hughes' empire slowly began to crumble.
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In the late 1950s Hughes began employing Robert Maheu, a former FBI agent and veteran of CIA counter-espionage activities, on a freelance basis. This included intimidating would be blackmailers and obtaining information on business rivals.
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The US Senate War Investigating Committee (SWIC) investigates Hughes’ failure to complete his wartime contracts (see 1946). Among those tarred by Senator Brewster’s brush is Elliott Roosevelt, the son of the late president, who, Brewster says, Hughes bribed by supplying him with girls. The investigation ... exposes the expense accounts of Hughes’ press agent, which show that he paid $132 for nylons for Elliott Roosevelt’s wife, the actress Faye Emerson.
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Hughes came to the attention of police in 1981, when at the age of 16 he was arrested for strangling a seven-year-old boy so fiercely that he was rendered unconscious and had to go to hospital. He was convicted of assault and given a probation order.
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Synopsis: Producer Howard R. Hughes intended to use Age for Love to prove that his current flame, silent-film leading lady Billie Dove, would be a smash hit in talkies. Beautiful Read More
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