Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lynch law of Latin American justice is the "ley de fuga" (law of flight). This is supposed to empower police to shoot fleeing prisoners, but in practice often means that a troublesome prisoner is set free, then drilled before he can scoot out of range. From León in Mexico's State of Guanajuato last week came a tale of ley de fuga perfect except in one particular...
With seven bullets in his back, Cattleman Tomas Manrique was found by pass ers-by and bundled off to a hospital. There he explained that after having been falsely arrested for stealing 50 head of cattle, he was set free in a deserted spot. Before Tomas Manrique had taken three steps toward liberty, a rattling volley cracked. He expected to make ley de juga history by recovering...
There are eleven Freeports in the U. S.*, but last week the U. S. got its first free port-a small, ugly plot at Stapleton, Staten Island, in New York Harbor's Narrows...
...inspection pains the homing U. S. tourist, it irks shippers more. For their relief and even more for the relief of U. S. ports that felt they were losing harbor business because of red tape, Congress passed the Foreign Trade Zones Act in 1934, making a limited type of free port permissible for the first time in the highly protectionist U. S. Free ports, isolated free trade areas, were once prevalent in Europe, included such cities as Naples, Leghorn, Hamburg, Marseille. Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports, walled...
Five piers, Nos. 12 through 16, make up the new free port, which has an area of 78 acres. Of this, 60 acres are the murky waters of the bay, 18 are solid land. A 12-ft. wire fence, costing $30,000, has been laced around the solid acres. To bar the bay to smugglers, two photoelectric eyes stare steadily across the half-mile harbor entrance...