Word: mildew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cane, wood, and other fibrous vegetable matter made possible the production in 1944 of about 638 million gallons of alcohol-grain and wood. But the yeasts are only one group of the microbic multitude able to perform specific jobs. Bacteria resembling the bacilli of human ailments and molds like mildew have also been put to work in industry...
Monsanto Chemical Co.'s Donald Howard Powers, the 43-year-old Princeton graduate who achieved these homely miracles, shrugged them off as only a beginning. He has already developed other chemicals which double the wear of wool and cotton, make textiles mildew-proof...
George Galiowhur's peacetime business was founded on the fact that people get sunburned-his Skol outsold all other anti-burn lotions. His war business (except for Sunstill) is founded upon two other equally factual premises: 1) people get bitten by insects; 2) fabrics are attacked by mildew, mold...
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...
...Puratized Process, in six variations, is being sold to some 150 processors of textiles, leather, etc., who end up with mildew-proof mosquito netting, rubber life rafts, webbing, boots, etc. for the Army & Navy. It is so potent, Frank Sowa figures, that 200 gallons would mildew-proof all the shoes in the U.S. Army...