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Answer: Sherwin-Williams QUICK QUIRK QUIZ: FISH OIL PAINT DEERE. JOHN ran DEERE. • Robert Fergusson away (continued): from his home in at the living age ofin12,Illinois and went seek •Scotland It was while that to John no-adventure on the sea. His duties included swabticed the problems that farmers faced when bing and re-painting rusty metal attempting to till soil.the Because the areadeck, had a tedious chore. day he lunged open formerly beenOne woodland, the soilfor wasanrich with hummus, clumped clungittobecontainer of raw which fish oil trying and to catch theitblades of but the failed. plows farmers accus-the fore spilled, It spreadwere all over tomed to using. repairing a broken cirdeck. In the days While following the spill, he noticed cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He that the rust that had been relentlessly creeping employed his smith skills to fashion the oil steel across the deck stopped where the fish had blade He intoremembered the shape ofthis a plow. He affixedhis spilled. fact throughout twocareer wooden then hitched the device long as aspokes, sea captain. to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil • After Newa Orleans, he happened frequently like asettling charm. in In fact, farmer who experimented with paints.put The to be observing thefish test oil-based run immediately problem was that they smelled terrible and took in an order for his own John Deere plow. forever to dry. When Fergusson was 42 years •old, In he short gave his of blacksmith wasorder, put inDeere charge of aupfleet ships durshop and focused on making plows. ing World War I. Taking the opportunity The to do company grew steadily and added many emfurther experiments with fish oil, he finally hit ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the on a formula that smelled better, dried fast, and entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed stopped rust overnight. of his own lack of education, John sent his • After the war, a paintschools. companyOne in 1921, children to he thefounded state’s finest of which did quitedays well.occurred Today it’s a worldwide leadhis proudest when son Charles er earned in protective paints and both home the equivalent of coatings an MBA for from Bell’s andCommercial industry, and still offers the famous rust-fightCollege in Chicago. formula thatCharles startedmanaging it all back 1921. The •ingWith his son theincompany, company’s motto, Neverphilanthropic Sleeps’, wasincreJohn found time‘Rust to pursue ated by the members of the rock group Devo when terests. He co-founded both the First Nationthey worked OhioCongregational advertising agency prior al Bank andfortheanFirst Church. to He becoming famous. theMoline name ofinthe comwas elected the What’s mayor of 1873, pany? (Answer at bottom of page.) where one of his first actions – the replacement of theDÉCOR city’s open BYdrains ABE with a sewer pipe system – saved countless lives reduc• When Abe Lincoln was a boy, he by saw some ing the spread of disease. boys wading in a mud puddle near the house.
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