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#59 Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire

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Hughes Tool Return to Profitability - A Bizarre Twist

Howard Hughes had two companies, one of them was a tool company. After the end of prohibition in 1933, Colonel Koudel opened a golf brewing firm inside part of his business to offset the falloff from depression. The brewery took on new life and it turned around underway in the oil business. Howard Hughes also crashed another plane while trying to beat Lindbergh's transatlantic flight record.

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