CLASSIC: The Hemp Car Cover-up
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Henry Ford's Soybean Car
Noel Brown: Henry Ford was a rabble rouser. He liked to shake things up and do things his own way, especially when he felt that people were limiting progress with their closed minded ways of looking at problems. By the late 1930s, he was intensely aware of a lot of looming potential problems on the horizon of the automotive industry. And guess what? He picked that old soybean as a building block to build the body of a car, the panels that you see.
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