Word: garagemen
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...receives about auto repairs, car-sales practices and warranties. From the 27,000 protests about faulty auto repair that came in last year, Elkins picks out the case of a Mexican-American laborer who bought an old car for $100. In the next 60 days he was victimized by garagemen who were as efficient at stripping him of money as they were inefficient at fixing his car. The laborer was almost inexcusably naive. He spent $750 for repairs and parts, including a different engine and two separate transmissions. After all that, the car would go no faster than 30 m.p.h...
...rising cost of repairs and medical care, individual claims also are getting bigger. Claims are further inflated because many accident victims-backed up by sympathetic juries-seem to be convinced that insurance companies have money to burn. Some of the claimants connive with their doctors, lawyers and garagemen to pad their bills. John Mahoney, New England claims manager for Employees Group Insurance Co., goes so far as to say that "every case is tainted to some degree with fraud...
...probably will. The snow is transmuted now, no longer white and crystaline but tough and tenacious, resistant to rain and sunlight alike. It will lie dormant, waiting for that last clear shot at the springs of a passing car. And the frantic garagemen will push ahead with their car removal, racing the phantom plows, never realizing for a minute that God will take care of the snow...
Within a month the ice would break, the mighty Peace River, the Sikanni Chief, the Buckinghorse, the Fort Nelson would be crackling torrents. There were never enough trucks to move up the stuff. Farmers, garagemen, merchants, traders piled in with their own vehicles. All the short days and long nights the trucks mired down in slush, were dug out, pushed...
Lawyers have sent 77 possible contributions to the Law School, but only two Yardlings came from homes of University presidents. Among others are sons of musicians, garagemen, tailors, army officers, haberdashers, efficiency experts, inventors, and shoeworkers, chemists, candy brokers and oculists...