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Article: Dominion Propeller Corp. (North Stars: the 49th State's small business success stories.) (Company Profile)
- Article from:
- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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Jerry Allsup, president of Dominion Propeller Corp., sits in his office and talks matter-of-factly about his company's rise from a small shop with less than $1,000 inventory to the largest propeller repair shop in Alaska. He comes across as a quiet fellow, but his unassuming exterior belies the reservoir of energy and enthusiasm that has made Dominion a high-flying success story. When Allsup was still in high school, he worked as a cleanup boy for Slim Walston at Northern Propeller in Anchorage. Later, he got a job as a prop mechanic at another local outfit, Alaska Propeller Specialists, and stayed there three years. In 1977, while working as an automotive mechanic, he heard ...