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...Cub. Famed Piper Aircraft Corp. was neck & neck with Taylorcraft. Shrewd, quick-moving President William Thomas Piper, whose planes hedge-hopped up & down the front lines during the war, is making 300 planes a month in his Lock Haven, Pa. plant, hopes to edge his output up to 600 planes a month by January. While most of his competitors concentrated on one plane, he had shrewdly put two models into production, the Piper Cub Special ($2,010) and the three-place Piper Cub Super Cruiser...
Harvester's able, lanky President Fowler McCormick has great hopes for his small (only 1,050 Ibs.) Cub Tractor. It is designed for the 2,200,000 farmers with less than 40 acres, who now shy away from high-priced mechanization. Harvester officials hope that the Cub, complete with all necessary farm implements, can be sold "for no more than the cost of a good team of horses"-i.e., less than...
Trucks lasted four innings, was followed by four Tiger pitchers. Big Hank's second homer of the series evened the score in the eighth inning. Passeau lasted six, Wyse one; Borowy was the fourth Cub hurler, and the winner-after 28 hits and five errors in twelve innings, the longest World Series game on record (3 hrs. 28 min) Score: Chicago 8, Detroit...
What Next? On the day Piper Cub airplanes went on display in Manhattan's John Wanamaker department store, four were sold to private flyers. The prices: from $995 for a single-seater to $2,905 for a three-place model. Ten hours of flying instructions were thrown...
Grimm's Cubs have pitching to match their hitting. Claude Passeau (won 14, lost 4) and Hank Wyse (18-8) are the two league-leading hurlers. Behind them is ex-Yankee Hank Borowy, whom the pennant-hungry Cub's management wangled out of the American League (TIME, Aug. 6) for a round $100,000 worth of players and/or cash...