Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alone a "notorious rumrunner" and explained that the U.S. cutter Walcott had ordered the 150-ton two-master to halt for inspection off Trinity Shoals. The Walcott had fired a three-pounder through the I'm Alone's rigging but instead of stopping she had turned and fled, her powerful Diesel engines boosting her out of reach...
Rifles cracked. A moment later the rebel General Jesus M. Aguirre, who captured and later fled from Vera Cruz (TIME, March 18), lay on the ground, bleeding slightly from the mouth. The photographers, who were there by order of President Portes Gil, took more pictures to prove that the execution had really occurred...
...chief general of the rebel forces, Gonzalo Escobar, had just fled from Torreon before the advance of Calles and his three federal columns. Theirs was the victory, but it was a hollow one. The wily General Escobar had looted five Torreon banks of $510,000 before he left. General Calles could see the outraged banks from where he ate, their windows broken, their vaults violated and bare...
...meet that afternoon. The usual Monday morning rally, produced by the accumulation of buying-orders during the weekend, failed to come. Call money was renewed at 9%. The rush of selling began. The bears pressed hot on the heels of their enemy; amateur speculators took flight and fled. Pool and investment houses which had been boosting favorites acknowledged the stampede, stepped aside to let it pass. The money rate went to 14%, the highest in nine years. At the close, many industrial stocks were down nine points or more...
...next day (March 26) money opened not at 9%, but at 12%. It rose to 15%, exceeding the previous day's high. Another and a greater selling wave set in−especially in coppers. The amateurs fled even faster than the day before and hundreds who did not flee were sold out, adding to the casualties. And money still rose...