Word: gyp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About one-half of all U. S. gypsum plaster is sold by U. S. Gypsum Co., a $60,000,000 corporation founded in the trust-making heyday of 1901, and always called by its management "Gyp." Gyp also sells prefabricated plaster called Sheetrock. Gyp's leading non-gypsum item is metal lathing to put under its gypsum plaster, and Gyp sells about one-fourth of all metal lathing in the U. S. Hard hit by the building depression, Gyp's profits sank as low as $1.599,000 in 1932, were $2,155,000 last year...
...effect that collective bargaining is all right if honest men are doing the bargaining, but crooked organized labor is a menace to the honest laborer. . . . This chap also said he used to know Farley when he was getting a small weekly salary selling gypsum (hence the name, Gyp Jim Farley.) Says Farley's great on organizing. Jim also is pretty good at picking the right man. All the professors late Jim, you know, because he hasn't the same ideas about career men they have. The professors want men who are good; Farley wants men who are Democrats...
...fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's Paris flight. Since then, as an airline executive, writer, woman's stylist and lecturer, Miss Earhart, with the aid of her astute husband, has kept the glitter of her fame untarnished. A devoted couple, he calls her "A. E.," she calls him "Gyp." They have no children...
Meanwhile last week the Better Business Bureau of New York City, reviewing the business year ended May 1, reported that promoters of the timeworn "sell and switch" racket* were still active, that "gyp" stock vendors had continued to flourish as of old under the Securities Act largely because the Federal Government had been backward about criminal prosecutions. Declared the Bureau: "An examination of the registrations under the Federal law reveals that by far the greater percentage of registrations was of highly speculative enterprises. Most promoters of such enterprises are deterred but little by responsibilities of civil liability which, under...
...frequently staying until 7 p. m. I make practically no social engagements. Sometimes I spend two hours or more reading letters before I get up. . . . My wife, who is present, will testify - perhaps angrily - as to the amount of time I give to company affairs. It is really 'Gyp' that should be complaining but they are strangely silent...