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...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...
...central figures are the large Joad family, Oklahoma sharecroppers, who lose their 40-acre farm to the bankers, sell their possessions for $18 to gyp agents, buy an ancient jalopy for $75 from racketeers, head out on Highway 66 for the land of plenty promised in a come-on California handbill. With them - the 13th passenger -goes lanky, philosophizing Preacher Casy, hillbilly Moses turned rustic socialist. Hero of the Joads is tall, homely son Tom, a paroled convict. Heroine is Ma Joad, strong, patient, dreaming of "a white house with oranges growin' around...
...years Hines romped with children of his district at picnics of his Monongahela Club. He watched such local boys make good as Frank Costello, "King of the slot machines" and Harry ("Gyp the Blood") Horowitz, executed murderer. Once he went $15,000 bail for "Scratch" McCarthy, forger (now jailed). Hines explained that as an active political leader who regularly attended sporting events his friendship was sought "by persons in various walks of life"-but insisted he shared none of their illicit profits...