Word: pipers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert H. Loeb 3L, Birmingham, Ala.; John F. O'Conor 2L, Cincinnati, Ohio; Wilson C. Piper 2L, Caribou, Me.; John B. Poor 3L, Andover, Me.; John N. Stern 2L, Chicago, Ill.; Robert O. Swados 3L, Buffalo, N. Y.; John R. Taylor 2L, Chicago, Ill.; Leonard Ugelow 2L, St. Albans, N. Y.; and Joseph M. Well 2L, Chicago...
...many years. Convention managers spent hours on the telephone, trying to round up enough delegates with white ties and tails to fill out the head table. Palace Hotel officials could not remember a convention that had done so little drinking. For three evenings the bar of the Pied Piper Room was lined with fresh glasses, iced and ready for the Martinis for which the bar is famous. The ice in the glasses turned to water as delegates talked in nervous little groups. Their talk was subdued by one vast, all-pervasive IF. For every question about U. S. foreign trade...
While Planeman Piper was attending the Los Angeles aircraft show on March 16, 1937, his plant burned to the ground. Only 15 planes, some wings, fuselages, spare parts were saved. When he got back, he found his mechanics out on the field putting together a plane with one silver wing, one red one. Pocketing his $75,000 loss (virtually no insurance), he bought a fireproof brick building from Susquehanna Silk Mills in Lock Haven, Pa., 80 miles away, renamed his company Piper Aircraft Corp., and started over. His loss for the year was only $39,555, and in 1938 profits...
Today 60% of U. S. light planes sold are Piper Cubs. The three-place, 75-h.p.cruiser (price: $1,798) and the two-place, 65-h.p. Coupe (price: $1,995) have top speeds of 100 m.p.h., cruise at 87, have a range of 320 to 380 miles. The slower trainers sell for as little as $995. Last year Piper's total production was 1,753 planes of all types, of which some 75% were bought on the installment plan (many of them for training amateurs at U. S. airports...
With comparatively few of his Cubs in the hands of private owners, Planeman Piper is doing everything possible to stimulate private flying. His sales policy includes a free training course with each plane sold. Last week he was pleased as punch to deliver twelve Cub Coupes (equipped with two-way radios and blind-flying instruments) to the Civil Aeronautics Authority, which is making many potential Piper customers by training 10,000 new pilots this year. To get ready for them, the No. 1 U. S. light plane maker last week offered 33,290 shares of stock (price: $8.75 a share...