Word: taxco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laboratories announced that the documents which led to the unearthing of Cuauhtemoc's bones were indeed 400 years old, and that the ink, writing and signature on them appeared genuine. Leading archaeologists agreed. Crowds of tourists began to make the five-hour trip over rock-strewn roads from Taxco to the Ixcateopan church, where they goggled at a few shoe boxes full of bone fragments and the copper disc found under the altar bearing the inscription: "Señor y Rey, Coatemo...
...decided on direct action. One night they moved into the Cuernavaca plant, packed designs and dyestuff onto a truck and skipped off to picturesque Taxco. There they set up a new shop, called themselves ''Tilletts of Taxco...
...last week the brothers had some new backers for "Tilletts of Taxco," a Mr. Klein and a Mr. Rosenberg. And they had opened a fancy new store in Mexico City. But the Tilletts were not happy...
Since the days of the Conquistadors Mexicans had heard cries in the night from that haunted spot near Taxco. They called the 20-ft.-wide hole in the ground the Devil's Nostril, knew it as a pit of death. How many skeletons were mouldering on the bottom, how deep it was, no man could say. Geologists had once probed 380 ft. straight down; one man had once descended part way, and lived to tell about it. He found two Aztec daggers...
Three weeks ago a citizen of Taxco went down the Nostril all the way, and did not come back. With him he dragged a Taxco policeman. Two others confessed that they had been hired to do in the man of Taxco. Taxco's mayor, a citizens' committee and the officials of American Smelting Co., which has twelve mines in the vicinity, decided at long last that the pit had its fill. Workmen were sent to seal the Devil's Nostril. When they are finished, 20 ft. of logs, concrete and boulders will cover its secrets...