Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year's end it had enough of a profit margin to permit a 10% wage increase. This year 50 plants have adopted the new setup. Nonetheless, Bulgaria still has a long way to go before reaching self-sufficiency. This month Sofia authorities advised a knitwear firm in Northern Ireland that they would be interested in the immediate purchase of 240,000 pairs of socks-suggesting that there are still holes in the economy...
...steal prescription blanks to obtain narcotics. Last week, calling him "the most bedraggled, woebegone man ever to come before this bench," the judge gave Shane a suspended sentence. Perhaps his luck is changing: with some $200,000 his wife recently inherited, he has promised to settle with her in Ireland to start life anew...
When Irish Novelist Sean O'Faolain (pronounced O'Faytawn) was 20 and a student at the University College in Cork, he wrote a poem containing the phrase "Mother Ireland's teeming navel"; he was subsequently astounded, he recalls, to learn from a medical student that in the history of medicine "no mother had yet been known to eject a baby through her belly-button...
...fighting arm of the immigrant Irish miners was known as the Molly Maguires, after a legendary heroine of Irish insurrections against the British during Ireland's great famine. In the U.S., the Mollies concealed themselves within the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a legitimate benevolent association of Irish-Americans. They were led by Jack Kehoe, a tall, tough ex-miner turned saloonkeeper; each branch of the society was headed by a "body-master," who could produce a dozen gunmen when needed...
Agent Provocateur. The man who broke the Molly Maguires was Franklin Benjamin Gowen, president of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., whose ancestors had come from Ireland's Protestant north; and he used another Irishman to penetrate the Mollies. His choice for the job was James McParlan, a gifted, gabby little Pinkerton detective who was as ready with his fists as with his wits...