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Purpose and benefits

Howard Robard Hughes Jr (1905–1975) was born into wealth. His father founded a company that exploited a new design of oil drill. The Hughes Tool Company was to provide a safety net of wealth throughout Hughes’s life that made it possible for him to indulge his every whim. Indulge he did. Before the age of 25 he had moved to Hollywood and made several successful films, founded a new drill bit company, bought over a hundred cinemas, and learned to fly. By the time of his death in 1975, he had a built a successful airline (TWA), run a film business, bought a piece of the gaming action on the Strip in Las Vegas, broken several airspeed records, survived three plane crashes, and become a legendary recluse. Few people have packed as much into one lifetime as Howard Hughes.