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Archive Home > 2013 > January > 05 > Helium shortage in the air

Helium shortage in the air

By Anna M. Tinsley / The Bulletin
January 5, 2013

Francey Freeman has seen the cost of doing business go sky-high.

Prices for buying helium to fill balloons and rental tanks at her Balloons Fantastique in Fort Worth have dramatically increased in the past year, because of a worldwide shortage of the lighter-than-air gas.

“Prices have....

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