Word: gyp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cure is just as easy to devise as the gyp itself. A requirement that all X-card holders obtain books of coupons, each worth a definite number of gallons, would solve the riddle. There need be no limit on the number of tickets a person may have, but every purchase of motor fuel must be accompanied by an exchange of coupons. Total sales for each station could then be easily checked against the number of coupons clipped. Some such arrangement, if adopted, would mean that New England's chances of having gas next fall need not depend on the activities...
...reduce the costs of insurance by issuing $50 deductible policies (like those now issued for automobile casualty insurance), thereby getting rid of numerous small gyp claims which not only cost money but require costly steps to settle...
...most of the night; some horses changed hands a dozen times. Included were some good work horses, a few riding horses. But most were plugs worth less than $25; some were bought by tallow-rendering companies, some as food for mink farms. Horse traders expect to be gypped but always hope to gyp the other fellow a little more. Said one dealer of a runty mare he had just bought: "I've owned her a hundred times in the last couple of years and she can't pull a kiddie...
...year than any railroad in the U. S. But more than half of them are commuters, and the Long Island, competing with 5? subways, must haul them cheaply. To the commuters' chronic irritation, it does. Favorite Long Island commuter's sport is thinking up ways to pique, gyp and otherwise get back at the Long Island Railroad...