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HOW TO AVOID OIL GAME GYPS, by Joseph D. Mountain

fill the tank, he said, "Better fill 'er up."[[strikethrough]]"[[/strikethrough]] They put 22 gallons into that 18 gallon tank,[[strikethrough]]"[[/strikethrough]] he [[strikethrough]]said [[/strikethrough]] ^[[reported]] [[strikethrough]]"[[/strikethrough]] but when [[strikethrough]]I[[/strikethrough]] ^[[he]] protested, they  ^[["]] called it square ^[["]] when [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] ^[[he]] paid [[strikethrough]] them[[/strikethrough]] for [[strikethrough]] only[[/strikethrough]] fifteen.[[strikethrough]]"[[/strikethrough]]

Another method used to gyp the gasoline buyer is[[strikethrough]], by one way or another [[/strikethrough]] to adulterate the gasoline ^[[in one way or another]]. In California and some other states, the gasoline dealer is required by law to label the pump and fill^[[ing]] pipes with the brand of gasoline it contains. But this does not prevent some greedy dealers ^[[from]] substituting cheaper [[strikethrough]]gasoline.[[/strikethrough]] ^[[grades]] One inspector checked the invoices from the company whose brand name was displayed on the pump, then read the meter on the pump. During the period of about one month, 2500 gallons more gasoline had gone through this pump than the invoices showed. When accused of substitution, the dealer confessed. The cheaper gasoline had cost one cent per gallon less than that which he was advertising. During the month, he had saved about $25[[strikethrough]].00[[/strikethrough]] by his crookedness. He was fined $50.[[strikethrough]]00.[[/strikethrough]]

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"We were driving along the street one day," said another inspector, "when we noticed the bowl of a visible pump which displayed the brand name of a good grade of clear white gasoline. Much to our surprise, the gasoline was a bright pink. When we investigated, we found that a new tank truck driver had dumped a load of colored ethyl gasoline into the wrong tank. Because the ethyl was a more expensive gas than white which was already in the tank, it was evident that the dealer had not intended any fraud, therefore, we did not prosecute him. But the difficulty he had in getting permission to sell the mixture of the two gasolines impressed upon him the necessity of labelling the fill pipes of his tanks."

"Many schemes are used to defraud the purchaser, but they all come to grief sooner or later," another official told me. "I caught one flagrant violator of the law through the anger of a discharged employe. I had been[[/strikethrough]]

Transcription Notes:
Original is not using the [[/strikethrough]] correctly around the struck phrase, so the transcription is hard to read accurately. I understand struck phrases should be preceeded with [[strikethrough]] and followed by [[/strikethrough]].