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Howard Hughes: Southern California
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Howard Hughes complained about the large amounts of money consumed by the two independent prestige films. Even years after the end of California Pictures, during a visit the home of William Cagney, Hughes fussed over the expense—$5 million, he claimed, in a story humorously retold in the autobiography of Preston Sturges.
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Pictured above is Howard Hughes in his prime doing what he loved best, flying fast. The airplane was the Northrop "Gamma Monoplane" in which he established a cross-country speed record, Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in 7 hours 28 minutes, on January 19, 1937.
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Hughes died of kidney failure during a flight from Acapulco, Mexico, to Houston, Texas. It took the courts two decades to sort out his financial holdings and distribute them to heirs. His estate, estimated by some to be worth as much as $2 billion, was officially valued at $360 million by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the states of California and Texas.
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