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#59 Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire
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The Story of Howard Hughes Jr.
Howard Hughes Jr. started his first business when he was just 16-years-old, selling drill bits for $5 a month. He became obsessed with aviation after reading about two British pilots who had won a challenge to fly across the Atlantic. His dad gave him an allowance of $5,000 a month at a time when that would be equivalent to 50,000 per year in today's dollars.
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