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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1947
Page
2
A 1947 briefing warns of sugar shortages through October as price controls expire and October through December may see limited store availability. Officials cite possible overbuying or hoarding and urge sane purchases to limit price spikes while agriculture department forecasts hedge against price rises.
The article recounts how millions of bison inhabited the Great Plains before railroad expansion. It highlights the vast herds and the region's ecological and cultural landscape prior to rapid Western development.
Duane Thomson, born May 5 with a tracheal fistula and esophageal stenosis, survived a groundbreaking operation at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland. Surgeons separated the gullet from the windpipe and rejoined it to allow normal swallowing, with feeding via tube then gradual return to normal eating. The success marks the first such procedure at Doernbecher and likely the first in the Pacific Northwest, originally performed in Boston in 1939.
London ministry of food expects East African peanuts to cover one third of Britain's cooking fats shortage by next year. Production planned at 56,000 tons of nuts yielding about 16,000 tons of oil to improve shortages.
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