Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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On the one side were three longtime and trusted lieutenants from the Hughes empire. They were Raymond Holliday, executive vice president of the Hughes Tool Co. of Houston, the castle keep of the boss's corporate kingdom; Frank W. Gay, senior vice president of that company and a onetime...
In recent years, Maheu had expanded on his own, buying into a $70 million housing development in Los Angeles, restaurants and an electronics company. Maheu and his security chief, Jack W. Hooper, a former Los Angeles cop, also had interests in a number of consulting firms. The Maheu firms hired...
Depth of Corruption. Maheu's rise stirred intense envy and innumerable rumors in Las Vegas. In that gaudy city, where stuccoed pastel towers climb improbably out of the desert, a gambler's distrust pervades everything, and almost everyone is thought to have his (or her) price. The entertainers...
Hughes, who is notoriously distrustful of everyone, became suspicious of some of his Las Vegas employees last February after a tip-off from federal investigators, who are investigating corruption in the Hughes Nevada operation. Huge kickbacks, it was said, were received on the purchases of old and largely worthless Nevada...
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