night, Howard.
You ever go to
a Communist Party meeting, Roland?
TWA stock.
How much?
Fifty thousand shares.
Ten.
All right.
This isn't gonna be that easy.
He's been making big contributions
on both sides of the aisle.
And Jack Frye is out there
lobbying everybody in town.
The French and British ambassadors
are lined up on his side.
I'm telling you, TWA is serious
about going international.
Okay.
Point, Mr. Hughes.
I think it's time for you to introduce
the community airline bill...
...on the floor of the Senate.
- Is it done?
- My people are finishing it right now.
I also have to get you on the committee
investigating the national defense.
On the committee or chairman?
I could be much more effective
as chairman.
It's a great public platform.
You know, it generates a lot of press.
- Wasn't Truman chairman of that committee?
- Yeah, right.
He's vice president.
Look what he did with it.
No, I think...
I think chairman.
What do you think?
- Chairman. That is interesting.
- Yeah.
Let me show you
these specs for the DC-4.
Ava, what do you think about
Trans World Airlines?
Transcontinental and Western
doesn't fit anymore.
We're international,
we need a name that reflects that.
Trans World is good. Kind of peppy.
TWA, right?
That way you don't need
to repaint any of the planes.
That's you. Always pinching pennies.
Hand me my wrap.
Knock it off.
I have something for you.
Stay here.
- What the hell is this?
- It's a present.
Go on, open it.
Oh, a box of trash.
You shouldn't have.
Keep looking, keep looking.
It's a Kashmiri sapphire.
I had my boys all over
the damn globe looking for this.
Why?
Because.
Look.
It matches your eyes.
I am not for sale.
For chrissakes, it's just a present.
You can't buy me, Howard,
so stop trying.
Don't buy me any more diamonds
or sapphires or any other damn thing.
You can buy me dinner.
How about that?
Jesus, Ava.
It's bad enough I have to endure
those gym shoes of yours.
But I get all dolled up and we go out
in this jalopy without a hood.
Ava, will you marry me?
- No, Howard.
- Well, why not, for heaven's sake?
In the first place, I don't love you.
In the second place, I'm still married.
Look, you got girls stashed all over town.
You got a damn harem just at the Bel-Air.
Marry one of your bungalow girls.
Those are employees. I won't marry
an employee. How would that look?
What is going on?
- Oh, my God!
- Goddamn it!
Faith!
- Faith, what the hell?
- Look out!
Goddamn, what the hell are you doing?
- Are you okay, lady?
- What are you doing with her?
We are going to dinner.
Now, get out of there.
Get that crazy bitch away from me!
Don't you love me anymore?
Course I love you, pork chop.
Ava, look over here. Howard.
Hey.
Juan Trippe is working
with Senator Brewster now.
They're after you. If the community
airline bill becomes law, we are finished.
Pan Am will have a monopoly
on international travel.
Well, how can they justify it?
It's un-American.
Brewster is saying that nationalized
foreign carriers, like Air France...
...can offer lower rates because
they don't have to compete.
Let's get rid of competition
and have a nationalized airline...
...and why don't we make it Pan Am?
- I'm not kowtowing to anyone.
- Howard, I need you up here.
- One sec, Odie.
Look, we are Trans World Airlines,
all right?
Get me something with a circle or a globe
or something round, for God's sake.
- Speak up.
- One cut.
I don't give a rat's ass. I'm not making
a cut. I'll release it without a seal.
We gotta go public with this.
I'm gonna talk to Hearst...
...but we gotta get
some senators on our side.
- What do you want me to do?
- What Trippe does.
Offshore operations.
See who's up for re-election...
...let's start making donations.
- Bribe senators?
I don't want them bribed.
I want it done legally.
I want them bought.
Put a team of investigators on Brewster.
I need to