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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1933, the great Tillamook forest fire in northwestern Oregon licked up 10,500,000,000 feet of standing timber, enough to supply Portland's sawmills for 20 years. Despite that loss Oregon is still the leading lumber State, still has the nation's largest remaining stands of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: Red Tiger | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

When the U. S. again goes to war, three master agencies will rise overnight in Washington: 1) a Selective Service Administration, to draft man power; 2) a War Resources Administration, to draft and rule industry for the duration; 3) a Public Relations Administration, to mold the mass U. S. mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Short of War | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Hyde Park. Blurb of the week was written by Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt in her syndicated column, My Day. Blurbled she: "I read a book last night until 2:30 a. m. That doesn't happen very often to me. . . ." Sleep-murdering novel: Again the River (still in galley proofs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Life | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

In a village in the Bakony Forest, Hungary, a peasant named John Koevecs was found apparently lifeless. But his sons were leary of burying John Koevecs: twice before he had been thought dead, had revived indignantly at the funeral. They decided to wait three days to make sure. At the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

In Boston, Mass, 30 years ago a chiropodist picked up a toad in his mother's garden, domesticated it, named it Teddy. To find out whether toads had a homing instinct, the chiropodist took Teddy on longer & longer trips, turned him loose. Teddy always came home-though from Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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