Hughes began his business career at the age of nineteen by taking over his father’s business, Hughes Tool Company. Hughes parlayed this small business into a highly successful and well-regarded ...

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square proposed to acquire 10 million newly issued Howard Hughes shares at $90 a share — up from $85 a ...

Jr. to run out of gasoline in the first place. Hughes’ company originated in Caddo Parish and remained there for decades. But to randomly be in downtown Shreveport and claim to be Howard Hughes ...

Hughes and Hepburn were together for more than a year after that, but the couple never married and the relationship ended. (Their complicated relationship was depicted in the Martin Scorsese movie ...

By Peter Hummers Hughes first became known as a film producer, and this was his most ambitious film. It almost killed him.

The elder Lummis played a critical role in the reorganization of the Institute following the death of Howard R. Hughes, Jr., the Institute’s founder and Lummis' cousin. The Howard Hughes Medical ...