Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Season. In San Diego, Yachtsman Sunshine Summers found it too cold for pleasure cruising, sold his 30-foot cabin boat to Early Snow...
...travel alone. In 23 small tombs around her royal chamber lay skeletons of her servants, killed at her death to attend her on the journey. Each had the special tools of his trade so he could serve his mistress. Beside a sacrificed painter lay his paint pots. A boat-builder's skilled spirit hands would provide for the Queen's transportation on the Nile of the other world...
...they found three planks which looked old enough for any antiquarian. Between the ebb & flood, the toilers of the Humber dug like inspired muskrats, building a mud wall to protect their find from being washed away by the currents. More planks appeared. Maybe it was a boat? By Jove, it was a boat...
...brothers joined His Majesty's forces in 1939, but the war only slowed their digging. They hurried back to the Humber at every leave to spot, in 1940. a second boat. When they were "demobbed" last year, a corps of enthusiasts joined the sloshy fun, extracted the boats, bore them off for exhibition in London. Experts pronounced them boats of the ancient, blue-dyed Britons, older than Julius Caesar by about 400 years...
...Prices. Most breathtaking things in the show were the prices. A few hours before the show opened, many exhibitors were still waiting to see competitors' prices before announcing their own. The figures they finally set ran upwards of 50 to ,60% above prewar. Example: the largest boat in the show, a 46-ft. Wheeler, had sold for $15,000 in 1940. The "improved model" was quoted at "around $30,000" last week...