Dunaway manufactured a number of household specialty chemicals, including Delete rust and stain remover, Vanish toilet bowl cleaner, Elf drain cleaner, Expello moth crystals and insecticide, and Bug-a-Boo moth crystals and aerosol.
All four companies signed consent decrees, a legal document in which one does not admit to doing anything wrong, but agrees to stop doing it.
Drackett made little effort to market it, but simply accepted orders to replenish merchants' inventories.
When ceramic cooktops first became popular in the 1970s, it enjoyed a major boom in sales, but was still a product to be manufactured only one day a year.
Dunaway and his wife, Anna E., lived on Belknap street in Dover during his early career as a manufacturer.