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...Kaiser, 2) the very idea. Some of them, Washington rumor said, put their best hatchet men to work to kill it. But stubborn Mr. Kaiser somehow salvaged a small Government contract from the battle. Turned down everywhere in the industry, he promptly went to work with lanky Howard Robard Hughes, movie maker, oilman, round-the-world flyer and aeronautical engineer. They planned to turn out three super-colossal planes of Hughes's own design...
Tall (6 ft. 3), slim, shy Howard Robard Hughes is a rich man's son: his father invented a high-speed oil drill, left a multimillion-dollar fortune. But Howard Hughes has never coasted on his inheritance. He showed a technician's touch even in boyhood, built his own motorcycle and radio set, invented a pretty good shock absorber, got admitted to California Institute of Technology for special courses before he was old enough to enroll as a regular student...
...Undoubted Crook of the Year was the late Frank Donald Coster (né Musica), with Richard Whitney, now in Sing Sing Prison, as runner-up. Sportsman of the Year was Tennist Donald Budge, champion of the U. S., England, France, Australia. Aviator of the Year was 33-year-old Howard Robard Hughes, diffident millionaire, who flew a sober, precise, foolproof course 14,716 miles round the top of the world in three days, 19 hours, eight minutes...
...Howard Robard Hughes's flight around the Temperate Zone (see pp. 36, 50) last week had every managing editor poised for a beat on his local rivals. Day of the fliers' return to the U. S., "Cissie" Patterson's sprightly Washington Times appeared on the streets with a four-column, front-page picture purporting to show the plane on the landing field in Minneapolis. Same day, in its final edition, the Times crowed that it had beaten its competitors to the street by 27 minutes with the story of Hughes's landing in New York...
When Howard Robard Hughes took off from Floyd Bennett Field last week (see pp. 36, 43) engineers feared that he might be flying out into radio silence. There was sunspot trouble. Only a few-hours before the take-off RCA's mighty Riverhead, L. I., communication station had a complete wipe-out of shortwave signals. The Hughes route (a northern circle notably poor for radio transmission) did not look promising...