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...note in TIME, Aug. 2, a letter from Terrell Croft, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, stating that your July 12 issue was delivered by the Mexican postman at 4 p. m. on July 14 to his address. I'll admit that in this case TIME made good time. However, I wish to advise the gentleman from Yucatan that Montana is always to be found on the map, and is not in the "slow" class by any means. Your issue of Aug. 2 was received by me at 9 a. m. this morning, Aug. 1. It happened to be Sunday, which accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...Merida, Yucatan, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 2, 1926 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...ponderous. Repaired, the cable caught again and soon Diver Fred Neilson of Brooklyn clamped on his helmet, dropped overside like a sinker, 213 feet to the bottom. When he followed his stream of bubbles back up to the surface, he told his comrades that they had indeed found the Merida, a ship sunk 14 years ago in collision. She was lying on her starboard side, he said, still well preserved; he had been able to read her name on bows and stern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sea-Gropers | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...backers, a syndicate called the Sea Hawks, organized last year and sent the Spray and Foam on a prospecting cruise. The Merida was found then, as it had been previously by other would-be salvagers, but heavy autumn seas prevented diving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sea-Gropers | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...field the several thousand troops defending the railways approaching the port, which was almost valueless as a base of operation." The rebel leader was later reported to have established a "capital" or base at Tuxpam in the State of Vera Cruz. Another report gave the place as Merida, capital of the State of Yucatan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Mexican Peace? | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

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