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... 1939 AN APPEAL court decision that employees were entitled to both wages and National Health Insurance sick pay during illness shocked many Kent employers. Workers feared the ruling would mean they would be sacked every time th%:meifl. of told manager ...

... 1939 EVEN before war was declared, a jittery feeling brought hundreds of people rushing out on to the streets in West Malling just after four o’clock one morning when a fire siren wailed. Thev though’ _€Y .. tan air raid had begun. Other people hurried ...

... 1939 AS WAR became more likely, the county’s National Service Committee, composed ofunz: leading figures under its chairman Edward Hardy, held its first meeting at the Sessions House, Maidstone. President Lorc -«muent L. Camden said the September, 1938 ...

... 1939 January 4: ARP trenches dug throughout town. Proposed 300 houses on land east of Cote Street and north of Arundel Road. March 22: Crematorium plans deleted from town plans. Thus ended two decades of hope with many earmarked building sites soon to ...

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... 0. 1939 VEEK-ENI Mrs L.F Was resp break which was and Mrs T and bedding were cc siderably damaged, and the Br arrived promptly under Chief Officer H. Brown made cer ain that danger of break was averted be fore leaving ...

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... December 18, 1939 ON Sunday, the Graf Sfiee left Montevideo with a skeleton crew which was taken off before char?es were detonated and the battleship was scuttled in the estuary. o o The Battle of the River Plate was the first major engagement of the war ...

... December 19, 1939 LONDON food markets reported “fair’” supplies of Eng)lush turkeys -at about 2s 4d per: pound {ll%p). Foreign birds were taking longer than usual to-arrive and:-were retailing at about 1s 6dper pound (7'2p). . Nearly 25,0001b5’ of turkey ...

... December 14, 1939 THE Graf Spee, damaged in her engagement with Royal Naval cruisers, put into ?he neutral Uruguayan Ron of Montevideo for repairs. She was permitted three days’ anchorage and repairs to make her seaworthy again, but not capable of fighting ...