In 1942, at the height of British industrial war mobilization, an unlikely cohort scavenged the nation’s coastline for a precious substance. Among them were researchers, lighthouse keepers, members of the Royal Air Force and the Junior Red Cross, plant collectors from the County Herb Committee, Scouts and Sea Scouts, schoolteachers and students. They were looking for fronds and tufts of seaweed containing agar, a complex polysaccharide that forms the rigid cell walls of certain red algae.
“这一新的现实情况表明，这是有意做出的举措，即比以往任何时候都更进一步地锁定供应链产能。”
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