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Soon Italy's famed Artiglio II, champion treasure-hunting ship (TIME, July 4, et ante), was called into action. Her divers reported that the Promethee lies on an even keel in 230 ft. of water where the current is exceedingly swift. Twice the divers' telephone connection with the Artiglio was ripped apart by the rushing waters. They expressed a professional opinion that it will be impossible to raise the Promethée, said that they found her hatches open, conjectured that an explosion may have ripped open the Promethée's stern, thus causing...
...marine engineering feat of recovering, with the salvage ship Artiglio II, gold from the strong rooms of the sunken Egypt, 400 ft. below the surface at a pressure of 177.2 Ib. per sq. in. (TIME. July...
...American Association of Master Locksmiths, sailed last month for Europe, he said he was off to pick a lock, where or for whom he did not know. Observers guessed it might be a rusted lock on a treasure chest hauled from the sunken Egypt by the Italian salvage ship Artiglio II (TIME, June 20). Never having met the lock that could resist him, Master Courtney, who first learned his trade at the door of his mother's jam closet, expected no trouble. Last week, back in Manhattan, he told of his lock-picking jaunt...
...ship neared Europe a wireless message came telling him to proceed to Bremen. There an engineer from the Artiglio II gave him minute descriptions of two safes to be opened by divers 400 ft. below the surface. A third had been opened with an acetylene torch, damaging the contents. Courtney gave the engineer a "template" (outline pattern) of what the lock probably was like, where it should be drilled. His templates opened one safe, failed on the other until he had flown to Calais and drawn another. His employers told him to come back in August when there would...
...bills of exchange in international commerce. From bills of exchange grew promissory notes and paper money, which is a government's promise to pay on demand. Italian lawyers last week adduced tradition & history for their opinion that Hyderabad might not legally repudiate the millions in paper rupees which the Artiglio IPs crew carefully cleared of sea slime and dried...