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Television news compares the daily yields of the Hughes and Getty fortunes
Description
He recounts the morning's eight o'clock television news, which showed pictures of Hughes and Getty and reported that their private fortunes of over a billion dollars each would yield $175,000 a day at six percent.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0 (probable)
- 29 April 1968 (probable)
Told
29 April 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Moses Joshua ΒΆ46 (Turn on the TV this morning and get the news at eight and they showed these two pictures, one of Hughes and one of Getty, and they both have as personal fortunes in excess of one billion dollars.)
before 1972
(possible)
A friend asked Neville whether he was following the Howard Hughes story; he replied that Hughes means nothing to him and wouldn't even buy him a sandwich, and remarks that the editors of Life were tak