Word: firs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 or in their own cars...
...felt out of place. He wrote later: "I had always been a New Englander in the Southwest and a Southwesterner in New England. In New England I missed the long dark river, the ailanthus trees, the flaming cardinal birds ... of Missouri; in Missouri I missed the fir trees, the hay and goldenrod, the song-sparrows, the red granite and the blue sea of Massachusetts...
...University official to me as being a result of the University's desire "to get out of the housing business with that kind of housing." He said that when those houses were built there was no other housing available, but that now it is available if you can pay fir it. He went on to say that the buildings were falling apart and if continued in use would be a disgrace to the University. Besides, the University lost money on them...