Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose rains make stone walls sweat with cold damp, and whose glinting sunlight fleetingly transforms forbidding rocks into some of the world's loveliest scenery. There are the English, who keep trying to treat Scotland as a conquered province instead of a proud nation. There is the grudging Scottish soil, whose bleak austerity breeds, by sheer force of survival, hardy sheep bearing wool that makes the world's finest tweeds. There is the Scottish economy, founded on ships and coal and heavy machinery, which, when depression hit, crashed with the thundering completeness of a toppling crane...
...almost wholly dependent on shipyards, foundries and blast furnaces, Scotland now makes 90% of Britain's sewing machines, a third of all Britain's watches and clocks, typewriters, office machines and carpets. "Today, everything is made in Scotland," was the theme of this fall's Scottish Industries Exhibition. In the past three years, money in circulation has more than quadrupled...
...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 estates." On these they built factories, furnished power and water, built homes for workers, and invited manufacturers to move in. Some 360 have, making products from plastics to electronics, from pharmaceuticals to refrigerators...
Luring the Dollars. Scotch whisky has long been the chief dollar-earner for Britain (though now rivaled by English automobiles). Scottish woolens, cardigans and tweeds are thriving. The little cashmere-sweater town of Hawick, with a working population of only 3,500, earned some $10 million in foreign currency last year -almost $3,000 per worker. To keep the dollars rolling in, the Scottish Council makes continuing surveys of foreign markets, puts out a monthly magazine listing export opportunities, and peppers Scottish exporters with useful tips, such as: "The president of the Canadian Association of Purchasing Agents is a Scot...
...Dixon line. Scotland has full control of its own school system (rated better than England's), its own established church (Presbyterian) and its own legal system, which is based more on Roman law than on English Common Law. Marriage, divorce, drinking and traffic regulations are made in Scotland. Scottish banks issue their own currency, which is interchangeable with English pounds...