Word: shakedowns
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...price structure of the whole industry seemed ready for a shakedown. Reasons: 1) fish must again compete with meat, cheese and eggs; 2) Canadian, Newfoundland and Iceland fisheries are underselling the U.S. industry (TIME, April...
...called Tucker's shakedown story an "unvarnished lie." He had been hired by Tucker, said he, back in July to help raise cash for Tucker's auto project. Tucker's charges of a shakedown now, said he, were merely an attempt to get out of paying him. He threatened to "sue Tucker for the fees and for libel." (Said Tucker: "Poppycock...
Last month gunmen began spreading their shots. One night as he drove home to suburban Miramar, Sugar Merchant Julio Lobo Olavarria, one of Cuba's richest men, was wounded by gunfire from a passing sedan. Lobo denied having refused a $50,000 shakedown demand...
...most interested in the field work periods of the program, which send the students to various firms and businesses for practical training. After a four week session, the girls will get "humble positions" in nearby firms "as a sort of shakedown cruise." Twelve weeks later, following further studies, they will have more responsible adminstrative duties in firms sometimes as distant as Cleveland or Atlanta...
Demobilization was the reason. Before she put to sea on her shakedown, Captain Joseph F. Bolger* had warned that she might be unable to leave port unless qualified replacements were supplied at once, to take the place of engine-room officers and men going ashore for discharge. Scraping holes in the bottom of its manpower barrel, the Bureau of Naval Personnel had found enough hands to keep the Midway's twelve boilers and four engines running...