Word: summas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt, the world could only once again try to probe the mysteries of his life-and death. There was even dispute over the cause of death. An autopsy in Houston, the home town that Hughes had not visited in 21 years, ascribed it to kidney poisoning. But a Summa Corp. spokesman insisted that Hughes had suffered a massive stroke two days earlier, forcing the emergency trip to Houston...
...fend off other U.S. agencies prying into his taxes and business manipulations. The now defunct Robert R. Mullen & Co., which represented Hughes in Washington, also served as a CIA front and provided cover for agents in Europe and Asia. Mullen's president, Robert Bennett, is now a Summa executive...
When the CIA conceived the plan to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from the Pacific seabed, the agency turned to Hughes for cover. Summa organized the construction of the Glomar Explorer, under the guise of an oceanic mining and exploration ship. Its real mission remains the subject of suspicion. Despite Government denials, there is speculation that the ship may have been performing different duties-like implanting a weapons systern on the ocean floor. Last week the Government sought to dispel those suspicions by allowing newsmen to visit the huge barge that accompanied the Glomar Explorer on the mission. The craft...
...many of his hired managers, the supremely powerful man whom they never saw was "The Shareholder." As such, Howard Hughes controlled everything through Summa Corp., headquartered in Las Vegas, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Miami. Occasionally, the corpulent assets of the two organizations bump into each other, revealing the complex relationships. The institute, of which Hughes was sole trustee, owns all of Hughes Aircraft Co., the huge defense contractor (more than $1.4 billion worth last year). Hughes Aircraft, in turn, owns half of Theta Cable, a cable TV system in Los Angeles. The other half is owned...
...major Hughes entities, Summa is the most varied. Housed in a heavily guarded building near the Las Vegas strip, it owns most of the Hughes properties and has an estimated $200 million in cash and negotiable securities...