Word: klas
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...death, Hughes' financial empire was nearly as wasted as his body. His holdings ranged from a major aircraft company and a helicopter manufacturer to casinos in Las Vegas, Reno and the Bahamas, ranches in Nevada, a magazine (Football Today), a television station (Las Vegas' KLAS-TV), mines in Nevada and vast amounts of undeveloped land. Most of the interests were grouped together in the Las Vegas-based Summa Corp., which, Lummis concluded, was run by a group of Hughes lieutenants of dubious ability and honesty. These included Chester C. Davis, Summa's general counsel; Frank William...