Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle is potentially much larger than a quarrel over a rich eccentric's privacy, a manuscript's authenticity, or the authorization to print it. Directly or indirectly, the controversy could conceivably endanger a sizable part of Hughes' wealth-including $300 million tied up in his Nevada properties, $145 million in a lawsuit against Hughes by TWA, and $50 million in a suit by the former head of his Nevada operations, Robert Maheu. These stakes could affect the future of the entire Hughes empire, which encompasses more than 50,000 jobs and a fortune estimated at $2.5 billion...
...handwriting is also said to match Hughes' signatures on a 1938 pilot's log and a Government security clearance issued during World War II. In addition, it matches the longhand in a letter, written in 1970, directing that Robert Maheu be fired as head of the Hughes properties in Nevada. Says Paul A. Osborn of Osborn Associates: "The evidence that all of the writing submitted was done by one individual is, in our opinion, irresistible, unanswerable and overwhelming...
...theoretical motive: to use the "autobiography" to discredit Hughes with Nevada authorities, causing his gambling licenses to be withdrawn and thus ruining his $300 million Nevada empire. The Nevada gambling commission has for months been trying to induce Hughes to appear before it and answer questions about who controls his Las Vegas enterprises. If the "autobiography" suggested that he had traveled to various cities to give interviews to Irving, the commission might demand to know why Hughes has declined to come to Nevada. Already, Nevada Governor Mike O'Callaghan has said: "If he had time to travel throughout the Western...
...Into Nevada. Hughes was seriously injured in three plane crashes, the last and worst in 1946, when he was test-piloting the twin-engine XF11. One of its huge, counterrotating propellers froze. He brought the plane to a crash landing next to a Los Angeles country club. His chest was crushed and doctors doubted that he would live. The aftereffects of those crashes have been blamed for his later reclusiveness. He first grew a mustache while recovering from the XF-11 crash because the burns he had suffered made shaving painful. For all his feats. Hughes is regarded...
Hughes sold his shares of TWA in 1966, receiving $546 million for them. It was then that he began his inroads into Nevada, buying up five Las Vegas hotels, a casino in Las Vegas and another in Reno. He also acquired a TV station, a Las Vegas air terminal, thousands of acres of real estate, and a regional airline, now Hughes Airwest. Meantime, thanks in part to the fact that he left them alone under competent management, Hughes Tool and Hughes Aircraft, an electronics and satellite company, were thriving...