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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
7
Great Britain faced a rejection of meatless and liquorless days as the House of Commons debated the policy today. Rehere Boothby, parliamentary secretary of the ministry of food, led the discussion amid ongoing wartime shortages.
Washington reports a Senate appropriations bill totaling 1,078,584,978 with 426,900,000 for relief loans and 883,170,060 for WPA funds over eight months beginning July 1. Senator Adams leads the measure as debates open. provisions ban aliens, Communists, and Nazi Party members from rallies. House and Senate committees push defense funding, while a resolution opposes transferring regions in the hemisphere to non-American nations.
Tennessee firms earned safety certificates in a national competition for mining and quarrying. The Federal Bureau of Mines announced awards sent to Eureka Copper Mine and Ducktown operations, Holston Quarry, and a Tennessee Line Company facility, recognizing safer practices and recordkeeping.
Research by Dr. Buena Ventura Jimenez at the University of Michigan links higher IQ scores with hay fever and related allergies. Over nine years, allergy records align with elevated results on student entrance exams, suggesting a correlation across age groups.
Omaha golfer J P Moray Jang captured a hole in one on the 17th at the Happy tournament. He achieved the same feat at the 1937 Happy Hollow event, marking a notable repeat in the course’s history.
Princesses Blaq beth and Margaret Rose daughters of King George VI head a list of British school children who raised a fund of 72000 dollars to purchase 18000000 cigarettes for Britain's armed forces as an Empire Day gift.
London reports government plans to ban most strikes and wage protests, ordering strict control over all wage jobs to maximize skilled labor efficiency. The Labor Minister Ernest Bevin announced the measures set to take effect Monday.
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