In the nation’s capital, a brazen scheme to exploit the ingenuity of inventors has been exposed. On a chilly February evening in 1949, a gathering of 100 hopefuls at the Commerce Department auditorium in Washington, D.C. was told that a new era for inventors was on the horizon.
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Key Facts
- State: National
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Era: Historical
- Source: Library of Congress — Chronicling America ↗
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