Umbrella company for the business interests of Howard Hughes after 1972
Summa Corporation
Founded
1972
Founder
Howard Hughes
Defunct
1996
Fate
Acquired by The Rouse Company
Summa Corporation was a holding company for the business interests of Howard Hughes after he sold the tool division of Hughes Tool Company in 1972. Its holdings included casino hotels, aviation businesses, and television channels. After Hughes's death in 1976, most of the company's assets were sold off, and it focused on developing the master-planned community of Summerlin, Nevada. Summa was renamed as The Howard Hughes Corporation in 1994. It was acquired by The Rouse Company in 1996.
SummaCorporation was a holding company for the business interests of Howard Hughes after he sold the tool division of Hughes Tool Company in 1972. Its...
expanded into helicopters by purchasing Hughes Helicopters from the SummaCorporation for $470 million. Hughes Helicopters was made a subsidiary initially...
Tool Company after 1955. It became the Hughes Helicopter Division, SummaCorporation in 1972, and was reformed as Hughes Helicopters, Inc. in 1981. However...
located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It was developed by SummaCorporation and Ernest W. Hahn, the latter also serving as general contractor...
Tool Company. He was also president and chief executive officer of SummaCorporation. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he was a student at the University...
interests were transferred to the newly formed holding company, the SummaCorporation. This included Toolco Aircraft and Hughes' property and other businesses...
divisions of the business were placed in a new holding company, the SummaCorporation. During the 1979 visit by Deng Xiaoping to the United States, Deng...
the Frontier through Hughes Tool Company, and later through SummaCorporation. In 1988, Summa sold the Frontier to Margaret Elardi, and her two sons became...
North Las Vegas Air Terminal. Originally known as SummaCorporation, the Howard Hughes Corporation formed in 1972 when the oil-tools business of Hughes...
to 1980 in Western United States. It was backed by Howard Hughes' SummaCorporation. Its original name in 1968 was Air West and the air carrier was owned...
Hughes Helicopters' Ordnance Division (externally-powered,) under the SummaCorporation as the Vehicle Rapid-Fire Weapons System-Successor, or VRFWS-S. This...
Company after 1955. It became the helicopter division of Hughes' SummaCorporation in 1972, and was finally reformed as Hughes Helicopters, Inc. in 1981...
Chairman of the Board for the SummaCorporation (rebranded as the Howard Hughes Corporation in 1994). The SummaCorporation was in the early stages of developing...
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She took a job with SummaCorporation and worked summers as a waitress at Caesars Palace throughout the 1980s. While working for Summa, she attended Clark...
recovered from the Pacific, now encased in lucite. Hughes Glomar / SummaCorporation crew patch A video discussing the Glomar Explorer, produced as part...
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SummaCorporation, which completed the extensive renovation that he had ordered. Summa sold the hotel to Kirk Kerkorian and the Tracinda Corporation in...
Daily News and the director of public relations for Howard R. Hughes' SummaCorporation. Arthur Frederick Rense was born 20 May 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, to...
miniature golf courses, batting cages, and a race track. Hughes' SummaCorporation would lease the land to the developer. A baseball stadium was also...