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Expendable Resources. The timber industry had undergone a revolution: logging in 1950 would send an oldtime Wobbly or an oldtime "bull o' the woods" lurching off to consult an oculist-or a bartender. The steam donkey, the logging locomotive, the oldtime logging camp had all but faded out; Caterpillars crashed and thundered through the fir jungles, yanking new-cut logs along, and truck &. trailer rigs took them to the mill. Loggers still wore "tin" pants, calked boots and red hats, but they felled trees with power saws, lived in town, and rode into the woods on buses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Land of the Big Blue River | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

This morning at Mass I saw a pink donkey with green ears, standing on its head. I hasten to add that it was on one of those lively scarves worn by young ladies. In other moments of distraction I have observed . . . Mahjong players, Hawaiian dancing girls, Sheiks and camels, not to mention film stars and dogs. I would suggest that the Spanish mantilla might be more seemly and beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No More Donkeys | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Chanters from Lloyd's Al Malaikah Temple in Los Angeles had practiced Lloyd's favorite songs (Marcheta, The Donkey Serenade). Choice sequences from Lloyd films had been put together to be shown on a screen, finally dissolving into a shot of Mrs. Lloyd and her three children-Gloria, 23, Peggy, 22, and Harold Jr., 17-in the garden of their 16-acre Beverly Hills estate. Then there would be a bouquet of roses for Mrs. Lloyd, and a new Cadillac sedan for the new Pote, purchased with 10? contributions from 42,333 California nobles. Said Lloyd in pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: The World of Hiram Abif | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Saddle your donkey and set on your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Make an Opera | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...donkey's equivalent of a lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: With Will to Win | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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