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Show each Strange Facts t 8-Year Salvage Job I J a Nurses Out of Sky I 'JJ Pontiffs Train Shy .trities lie d The greatest salvage job in h.((j , tory, to which the British na,ause devoted eight years, making rnc.'j than 5,000 dives, was the recove " . of $24,800,000 worth of gold fr( the wreck of the White Star lir0, Laurentic, which struck a mf"15 and sank in 120 feet of water ;er ceD the north Irish coast in 1917. mMb France now has a voluntr r ' corps of approximately 200 "flyi a nurses," women skilled in pa:, chute-jumping as well as nursiy cc who are ready at a moment's i :ti to tice to be flown and dropped, w their medical kits, at points whr !ctivit their services are urgently need'!mSei Keratin is one of the oddest si':ose dl stances produced in human r'sra animal bodies. Not only is it 1935, chemical basis and an essenli? unc' ingredient in such soft appendaprities as wool, fur, hair and feathem iten but also in such hard ones as hi All mo hoofs, nails, claws and shells. .;nSes The only Pontiff of the Roniplan Catholic church who ever rode-uenera a railroad train while" pope vion. Pius IX, who reigned from 184f.;;ti ar 1878. CoUier's. aoneys " M '.0 crm i |