Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard HughesW. W. Norton & Company, 1979 - 687 pages |
Contents
Preface | 11 |
DEATH IN MEXICO | 19 |
THE EARLY YEARS | 29 |
135 | 61 |
HERO | 75 |
THE WAR YEARS | 105 |
MOVIES MISSILES AND COMMUNISTS | 161 |
REVOLT AT CULVER CITY | 186 |
THE HIJACKING OF AIR WEST | 381 |
GOLD FEVER | 398 |
TURNING POINT | 423 |
Hoax | 467 |
Under Fire | 494 |
HUGHESGATE | 517 |
THE LAST YEAR | 550 |
A SUMMING | 622 |
Common terms and phrases
aides air force Air West airline airplane Annette April asked aviation Bennett Bill Gay building California called codeine contract Cook Corporation Court Culver City Dalitz Davis Deposition Desert Desert Inn Dietrich director Donald Nixon Dummar Eckersley engine files film flight flying boat Francom Gano Greenspun helicopter Hell's Angels Holliday Hollywood Holmes hotels and casinos Houston Howard Hughes Hughes Aircraft Company Hughes Estate Texas Hughes executives Hughes Glomar Explorer Hughes organization Hughes Tool Company Hughes's Ibid Jean jets July Las Vegas Sun later lawsuit lawyer Lockheed Lummis Meier Memorandum million mining Miss Henley Mormon movie Myler Nadine Henley negotiations Nevada never Nixon Noah Dietrich Operations pilot plane president Rebozo Romaine Street Senate Summa Summa Corporation talk telephone Thain told TWA's Vegas wanted Washington Watergate weeks Woolbright York