Word: scottishly
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...this time the fat was in the fire. Communist Willie Gallacher raised the "Scots Wha Hae" cry* of Scottish nationalism. M.P. Neil MacLean blamed "some confounded fool in the Admiralty" for allowing a famous shipyard to remain idle because of a mistaken idea that it had no engine shop...
Scotland was burning last week, as any Clydesider in any pub would have told you: "A scandal, lad, a scandal. The Parliament allowing only half a day to a debate on the dismal category of trends and tendencies in Scotland. Ah, lad, the Scottish workingman is getting the short end of the horn as usual...
...about what he suspected, but the awful realities of Scotland's economy moved a chill hand over the hearts of Scotland's industrialists. Last week able, convincing Secretary of State for Scotland Tom Johnston, onetime editor of a left-wing Independent Labor Party newspaper, hung the high Scottish grouse before Parliament's nostrils...
Those Days Were Bleak. As head of a new Advisory Council for Scottish Industry, Tom Johnston accused the English of concentrating heavy industries in England, at the expense of Scotland. Between 1932 and 1937, 3,217 new factories were started in Britain, of which Scotland received only 127-while 133 Scottish factories were closing their doors. In 1941, 4,500,000 square feet of Scottish factory accommodation was allocated to storage and only 500,000 square feet to war production-a storage ratio of nine to one for Scotland, compared to a British ratio...
...that all was not lost-provided the English realized the gravity of Scotland's position. In 1942, 16 new war industries were granted Scotland. His committee, he said, hoped to corner more, while working at the same time against the drift of industrialism to the south. On the Scottish domestic front he urged more attention to hill shepherding, herring fishing and de-velopment of hydroelectric power...