Word: lesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Less than a year ago, Redwater, Alta., 35 miles northeast of Edmonton, was a place to pick blueberries. Last week it was the center of the biggest oil boom in Canadian history...
...months, has become a place where a man can spend some of his money. It has six new restaurants, a poolroom and bowling alley, three movie theaters. It also has a spanking-new hotel and beer parlor, where business is so good the waiters refuse to serve less than two beers at a time to a customer. Near Leduc, Imperial has bought a 160-acre field and built a village for 900 families...
Medical skill has made dramatic gains during recent years in saving the lives of premature babies, but along with this advance a disturbing fact was noted: among babies weighing less than three pounds at birth, about one out of eight went blind, usually in both eyes. Those weighing three to five pounds were less susceptible. By one estimate, the price of the advance in science was that 500 U.S. babies a year might be afflicted...
...young team of Baltimore eye specialists, Dr. William Councilman Owens and his wife, Dr. Ella Uhler Owens, decided to begin at the beginning. In 1945 they started to study every baby weighing 4½ pounds or less born at Johns Hopkins Hospital or taken to its nursery. They observed 214 in two years. No baby had R.L.F. at birth, but five developed...
Twelve babies, all three pounds or less at birth, were given vitamin E, beginning when they were about a week old. None of them has developed R.L.F. Of 17 others studied who did not get vitamin E, three began to show the early symptoms of the disease; so did four others who had weighed between three and four pounds. When vitamin A and iron were stopped, and vitamin E given to these seven, the disease was checked in four cases. This, cautioned Dr. William Owens, is "very encouraging, but not scientifically definite...