Word: tuam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britons the biggest batch of Free State contracts since the great River Shannon hydro-electric project eight years ago. Part of his long-range program to make Ireland self-sufficient, they called for ?600,000 worth of machinery for beet-sugar factories at Mallow, Thurles and Tuam. German and Czechoslovak companies got the contracts in exchange for promises to buy more Irish farm products. When the three new plants are operating next autumn, the Free State need import no more sugar. Next problems: grain, clothing, paper, machinery, chemical products. Insoluble...
Birthdays. The Honorable Katherine Plunket, 110, daughter of the 2nd Baron Plunket, Lord Bishop of Tuam, in Ireland; Patrick Cardinal Hayes, 63, Archbishop of New York (world's largest diocese); Archduke Otto, 18, pretender to the Hungarian throne...