Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climb the oak staircase within the nearly four-centuries-old Trinity College Library. They enter the majestic, arched Long Room, pass along the galleries to a desk in the center, part a pair of curtains to peer into a glass-enclosed display case. They are there to see Ireland's most precious treasure, the Book of Kelts...
...three known copies of the wordbook of Handel's Messiah-but it is the most valued. Last week, insured for $3,000,000, the Book of Kells was being readied for exhibition in London's Royal Academy-the first time it has ever left Ireland...
...plant is the newest example of the Irish government's successful campaign to lure in foreign industries to bolster the island's faltering economy. Principally agricultural, Ireland has provided so few jobs that each year as many as 40,000 Irishmen immigrate, mainly to the U.S. and Canada, to find work. Two years ago, the government put together an appealing package. To the foreign industrialist, it grants a ten-year tax exemption on export profits and offers to pay the full cost of training the workers (average wage: $29 for a 44-hr, week), plus...
Under the incentive program, 51 new factories turning out products ranging from transistor radios to giant shipyard cranes have been built for foreign firms in Ireland. For their share, foreign firms have invested about $84 million in plants and machinery. The plants have directly created 10,000 new jobs, indirectly another 10,000. Nearly one-quarter of the plants belong to West German firms, which, faced with a labor shortage at home, have turned to Ireland for a bountiful supply of workers. Besides Borden, twelve other U.S. firms, including Brunswick Corp., Standard Pressed Steel (electronic components) and Hallmark, have...
...industry has given Ireland's economy a big boost. After years of stagnation, the gross national product is now growing at an annual rate of 3.5%. Exports, which amounted to only $310 million in 1955, are expected to pass the $450 million mark this year. The increase in industrial exports has narrowed Ireland's trade gap from $271 million in 1955 to an anticipated $224 million for 1960. As the pace of industrialization quickens, the Irish hope to close the trade gap entirely...