Word: humber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newfoundland's west coast, silvery Atlantic salmon were running in a score of rivers. The big ones picked the lordly Humber. Last week, U.S. sportsmen were heading in to try the Humber's limpid pools. On the more popular of Newfoundland's 108 major salmon rivers, cabins were booked solid. (Cost: $25 a day for board, room, canoe and guide...
...heard in the outports where the toast is likely to be "I bows taward ye." In its quiet, trim little seaside hamlets, with their gaudy-hued houses and limed picket fences, the sightseeing visitor can get a thrill of discovery to match the sportsman's strike in the Humber's pools...
...prowess. In Portsmouth harbor, Britain's vastest, newest battleship, the 42,500-ton Vanguard, was laden with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets, elaborate apartments for the royal travelers, and a special platform on which they could be seen at naval reviews...
Whenever they could spare the time, the brothers waded out at low tide to dig in the gluey brown mud. In 1937, 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...