Word: gallowhur
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Sunstill* is only one man's solution for a military problem that is now engaging some of the best minds in & out of the services (TIME, June 21). But its financier and sponsor-a big, blond, 38-year-old bachelor named George Gallowhur-is by now the hero of a little business career as American as ice cream...
Personal History. The only atypical thing about George Gallowhur's story is that he was born well-heeled: his mother's family founded prosperous Westvaco Chlorine Products Corp., also owned Warner Bros. Co. (corsets). His father came of an old Icelandic family that settled in Pennsylvania, originally had a strange U.S. monopoly: Shetland ponies. Young George went to Hotchkiss, paused in Princeton, then went to work in Missouri for Associated Telephone & Telegraph Co. "going down into manholes and up telephone poles." Two years of the seamy side of phone business was enough. George went to the Tyrol...