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1 day ago · A group of Houston businessmen purchased the site for Bush Intercontinental Airport in 1957 to preserve it until the city of Houston could formulate a plan for a new airport as a replacement for William P. Hobby Airport (at the time known as Houston International Airport). The holding company for the land was named the Jet Era Ranch Corporation ...
7 hours ago · In 1947, Howard Hughes was summoned to testify before the Senate War Investigating Committee to explain why the H-4 development had been so troubled, and why $22 million had produced only two prototypes of the XF-11. General Elliott Roosevelt and numerous other USAAF officers were also called to testify in hearings that transfixed the nation during August and November 1947.
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1 day ago · My Master, The Inside Story of Sam Houston and His Times, By His Former Slave Jeff Hamilton. State House Press. ISBN 978-1-933337-23-4. Haley, James L. (2015). Sam Houston. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ASIN B00VY161EI. Hitsman, J. Mackay (February 1960). "The Texas War of 1835–1836" (subscription required). History Today 10#2 pp ...
1 day ago · Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe was born on February 6, 1993, in Lexington, Kentucky, [4] and is the eldest child of college professors Michael and Aimie Kachingwe. Her father is a professor who teaches acting at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and a first-generation Zimbabwean immigrant of Shona descent, while her mother, who is of Danish, Norwegian, and Irish descent, teaches ...