Word: ijmuiden
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...into hiding in the U. S. and Britain. Gone was the bulk of her vast holding of international securities ($1,076,000,000 in the U. S. alone); the last bundle of engraved paper to be rescued was lugged from Amsterdam by a British officer who pushed off from Ijmuiden to England in a commandeered motor boat after Amsterdam had fallen. Gone was her stock of diamonds: the last store, worth several million dollars, was snaked out of Amsterdam to London by a diamond merchant after the terror had struck...
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