Word: gallowhur
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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...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...