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This Week in Universal News: Howard Hughes and the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, 1939 – The Unwritten Record
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Howard Hughes leaves his B-23 bomber plane at the Washington National Airport, D.C., after a flight from the West Coast, Nov. 7, 1947. Hughes is here to attend a second round of
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Michael Beschloss on X: "During his reclusive last years sequestered in darkened hotel penthouses, Howard Hughes reputedly became even more of a germophobe, with Kleenex boxes on his feet, growing very long
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