It’s my understanding this occured the day after Lehman bankruptcy was announced and when on of the faster growing Money Market Funds announced NAV of .97, called ”breaking the buck” which started a run.
It’s also my understanding it occured over 3 days when the government stepped in.
Of course the funds would have been transferred electronically.
If I had funds at risk in a MMF, I probably would have been trying to withdraw it myself.
I’m sure regulators know who withdrew the funds. 

Jose, you’re going to have to walk me through that one.

I would say four things caused the loss of manufacturing jobs.
1. Strong dollar, which made our exports expensive relative to other countries.
2. High wages. This also made the differential between imported and exported goods, though we relied on high productivity through our technological advantage to offset. Productivity is the key. Any increase in wages without an increase in productivity is inflationary.
3. Regulation and taxes. We regulated several industries out of this country, and high corporate taxes prevent companies from locating here.
4. Free trade. Most countries use tariffs to maintain jobs that otherwise would leave a country.

I was working for a construction manufacturing firm that shipped nearly 40% of it’s equipment to Europe. The company built one plant in Italy, one in England and were planning one in the eastern Europe (relatively cheap wages). The decision was the cost of shipping, part of which was due to high energy prices.
They are continuing to build a plant in China to service Asia. The engineering department was required to send work to India, even while they were laying off engineers here. There were two reasons for this- they had a contract that required a certain amount of jobs, and Indian engineers work cheaper than American engineers.

Mike Devx
Wish I could answer that question about pre 1972 or after.  I only understand that there was extreme hyper inflation in the 70′s. If you recall, home prices were doubling left and right. CD’s were paying 10% and upwards towards 16%. The dollar should have been devalued 10% at the time, but that was never going to happen.
I was thinking about all the posts and had another thought … France, for many years ( (I don’t know if it’s still a law) would not allow radio to broadcast more than 40% in English, supposedly to protect the French language. At the time, I thought it rather anti-English and some Euro-protectionism. China and Saudi hold and manipulate  US dollars. I think we have to apply the same ratio-nal thinking to import/export. The Saudis have bought entire departments at Harvard to begin with like  “Chair of Islamic Studies’. Nevermind, that I think Harvard is whore for selling their body – it should be illegal and that we need to initiate the France model to how many dollars come in/out and the same percentage must be applied to all goods.