Word: shakedowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Space was sold to major corporations, in particular to defense contractors, at $15,000 per page. This is not normal advertising but represents a shakedown of those industries which are doing or which hope to do business with the Government...
Affable Aronson, a Naval Academy graduate ('45) who still talks of market testing in terms of "shakedown cruises," has gotten considerable mileage out of his fuel. Ronson's butane lighters led to butane candles, basement workshop torches, and the butane chafing dish. Just as Gillette sells razors cheaply and counts on blade refills for profit, Ronson prices its butane appliances modestly, profits from refill sales of the fuel...
...American Civil Liberties Union is not happy with Judge Stout's self-styled "swift justice," which may overlook constitutional niceties. She is also in continuing physical danger; one spectator shakedown in her courtroom recently produced 22 weapons, ranging from knives to scissors to an 18-in. dog chain. Armed with round-the-clock bodyguards, however, the judge goes serenely on her way. "If they can frighten the courts," she says, "they will just take over. I don't intend to be frightened...
...Rebekah Harkness went ahead, put up $2,000,000, and founded a real live dance company of her very own. Last month the new Harkness Ballet, headed by Choreographer George Skibine, launched a three-month "shakedown cruise" in Europe. What impressed the critics was the youthful verve and vitality of the 30-member company-which, unfortunately, the repertory of 14 ballets only partially exploited...
What made the scandal possible was the academy's rigid honor code-and, perhaps, the high-pressured tempo of a relatively new institution still on shakedown maneuvers. Academy exams, like those at approximately one-fifth of the nation's colleges, are conducted on the honor system, without proctors. At Colorado Springs, students may take the same tests days apart. As potential officers and gentlemen, cadets are expected not to cheat. Those who fail to report a cribber are subject to the same stiff punishment (expulsion) as the cheater himself.* The cadet manual warns that "there will...