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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Skol made a hit in the U.S. too, and Gallowhur began to look for something else. Soon he found 1) a new formula for protecting fabrics from mildew, fungus, etc., developed by a young Oregon chemist named Frank Sowa, 2) an insect-repelling chemical developed by U.S. Industrial Alcohol Co. He named the first "Puratized Process," the second "Skat." Both products automatically became strategic when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sun, Bugs and Mold | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Business. Today the Gallowhur Chemical Co., in its rustic plant-by-a-waterfall in Windsor, Vt., not far from Bachelor Gallowhur's 2,000-acre farm, is producing Skat at the rate of 5,000,000 bottles a month. Among its big customers is the U.S. Coast Guard: shore-patrol horses are sprayed with Skat to repel sard flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sun, Bugs and Mold | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Without counting on Sunstill sales at all, George Gallowhur estimates his gross business for this year at around $8,000,000, well over twice last year's sales. Skol will account for no more than 5 to 6% of the total business. Despite this volume, it takes only 400-odd employes to turn out everything. The Skol Co. (two-thirds owned by Gallowhur Chemical Co.) runs on conventional capitalistic lines. But Gallowhur Chemical, some 90% owned by free-wheeling George, is different. As Gallowhur puts it, "we have Jack & Heintz ideas except that we don't shout down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sun, Bugs and Mold | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Peace Business. It is peacetime prospects that really excite George Gallowhur. In a healthy, antiseptic postwar world he sees mankind free of sunburn (Skol), free of bug bites (Skat) and "Puratized" of fabric-borne germs. He imagines everything from toothbrushes to children's departments in stores automatically made antiseptic; walls in breweries and bakeries painted with pigments that combat yeast- mold; swimming pools and yachts protected from algae (a small boat, painted with patches of plain and Puratized paint, "grew a beard" in the plain sections, was "cleanshaven" where Puratized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sun, Bugs and Mold | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...favorite Gallowhur dream at the moment is to Puratize $1 bills-but he has a new idea almost every day. Since, in such a well-ordered world, shipwreck would be almost unthinkable, he can afford to be calm about the future of Sunstill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sun, Bugs and Mold | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

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