Word: oculist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...