Word: culver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Businessman. Bugsy went right to work. He moved in on the gambling at Redondo Beach, took a cut of the profits at the Agua Caliente race track, muscled in on the numbers racket, cut himself a slice of the offshore gambling fleet and the Culver City dog track...
Samuel C. Butler, of 2704 E. Broadway, Logansport, a graduate of Culver Military Academy...
...whiz at English and math, he graduated at the head of his class from Indiana's Culver Military Academy, went on to the University of Virginia to study law. He spent more time playing poker and shooting craps. He did not bother to finish his first year because in April, at the age of 19, he married Anita O'Keeffe,* a girl from Sun Prairie, Wis., whom he had met at a party in Charlottesville...
Perelle went to work enthusiastically. He speeded up work on the flying boat, got it so nearly finished that the only big job left was to get it from Culver City, Calif, to Los Angeles' harbor, 28 miles away, for final assembly and testing. But the $18,000,000 granted by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to build the plane had been spent. Although Hughes had agreed to meet any costs over this amount, Perelle went to Washington and saw RFC. Having already sunk so much in the plane, RFC agreed to put up another $1,500,000 to move...
What will happen to the flying boat now, nobody knows. RFC, which owns both the plane and the plant it was built in, is anxious to get it away from Culver City. It has already offered the Howard Hughes plant for sale as soon as the plane is moved. But Hughes has shown no signs of moving the plane until RFC agrees to his terms. It may have to eventually-and finance the flights as well-if it ever expects to see what it got for all that money...