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PETER C. DOUGLAS Glasgow, Scotland...
Boom on the Clyde. Industrial production is at an alltime high, up 10% in the past two years alone. From John o'Groat's to the Mull of Galloway, unemployment is almost unknown. Glasgow, whose Clyde-side shipyards make it the world's biggest builder of ships, is booming. More important, through energetic promotion Scots have succeeded in diversifying their industry against a new time of trouble; in the past five years, 500 firms have established new factories or made major expansions in Scotland. Where, before, its prosperity was almost wholly dependent on shipyards, foundries and blast...
Scots at first tested their new prosperity as cautiously as thin ice. They had been prosperous before. In the late 19th century, coal and iron built Glasgow into Britain's second largest city (a rank now contested by Birmingham), and Scots flocked down from their hill farms until a third of the whole population lived within 20 miles of Glasgow. When depression came in the 1930s, heavy industry closed down, and one of every three working Scots was unemployed. A group of Scottish businessmen resolved it should never happen again, and formed the Scottish Development Council to launch "industrial...
...Scotland-the need for more manpower. Over the years, Scotland's greatest export has always been Scotsmen. There are four Scots abroad for every one in Scotland. Its white-collar class fled from its dour hills and sooty cities, and as the warmth died from the great Glasgow furnaces, its best working manpower drained away to other lands. Today that wasting loss of the nation's best blood has been stanched...
Died. David Coupar Thomson, 93, Scottish press lord and bitter anti-trade-unionist; in Dundee, Scotland. Owner of three newspapers (including the Glasgow Sunday Post, with the largest Sunday circulation in Scotland), Publisher Thomson made his employees sign contracts that forbade them to join unions, was finally forced to back down in 1952 in the face of a threatened boycott of the Trades Union Congress and affiliated unions. His papers always bore the imprint of his crusty personality. After a row with Winston Churchill in 1922 over a political speech, he barred Churchill's name from the Thomson papers...