CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings April 15, 2014
Collecting plans from all over the world and had hundreds of thousands of people collecting plants and sending them back to fort myers to find a source of plant material that could produce rubber. The laboratory was put here because they could grow the plants on site and do the preliminary research on site. The laboratory was interesting for many reasons. There was no patent process for plants, chemical patenting. This lab caused the United States government to come forward with what was called ...
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