Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
Fallout is, of course, always disastrous— one way or another what seemed to me, since I use two And Hilary brought in a bottle of his new detergent. It was a syrupy Hilary grinned. "Lauryl benzyl "Why, Donald," she said, "it could 20% solution." "Goodness." I protested, "it's been twenty-five years since my last course formula—." now empty of its soda bottles, this?" like polishing waxes and sell them from door-to-door. Some groups have "Perhaps," I countered, "somebody should tell me." "You mean you don't know, honestly? almost nonexistent. to put up fifty dollars to buy any suggested that I might advance another fifty. The question is, could we do it?" so much suds coming from that course it was the same boy that did starting mortgage payments all over "Yes, of course. Who would ever with those cute furry tails?" after sobering up long enough to give me a serious warning against letting such a thing happen again. "Did you hear what she said? It'll going to do that as little as possible. boy, selling is fun. Hilary, when can and if it's safe and legal and possible you make some more of that stuff? "How many generations?" I asked Doris. "Seventeen. No, eighteen, now. thought, be quite a beauty in a few more years, but was at the moment the new mice were breeding true. right, if you promise me they can't knows what you'll do when fall "We'll be out of the mouse business by then," Doris predicted. "Every pet them and they'll be down to nothing apiece." Doris was right, of course, in spite of our efforts to protect the market. with a face full of freckles and an shipping. It was rather regrettable that, after the Courier Many of them wanted to buy mice or "There's something wrong with making said Hilary. "We'll need some money of the mice at ten dollars a pair The usual products, of course, with safely and that people will buy and use without misgivings—solvent to free up rusty bolts, cleaner to remove road tar, mechanic's hand soap—that are you doing to get patent protection on Ridge Industries' new developments?" their imaginations. Maybe it'll be just what they need." Mary said, "Why don't we make a freckle remover? I'd be our first customer." "The thing to do," Tommy offered, "I've been wondering whether something Ridgeville want to buy, then sell it shouldn't be done, but I know eye. "You should be able to make ball bearings by molding, then densify them by electroplating." "And all we'd need is a hydraulic press," I told him, "which, on a guess, might cost ten thousand dollars. Let's think of something easier." of some kind." "How about a new detergent?" Hilary offered to license the design. Result, "Like the liquid dishwashing detergents?" one licensee with a thousand dollar advance against next season's royalties. brand new synthetic detergent. I've sounds like another operation legal sense, of course. Hilary and I safe synthesis of some sort. You're There are a zillion patents on synthetic detergents and a good round "Some," said Hilary, "and I've got held up a long admonitory hand—"it just looks as though we had a clear spot. If we do get protection, you've got a real salable property." "That's fine, Mr. McCord," Hilary bottle. He opened and sniffed at it gingerly. "What gives?" "Before-shave lotion," Hilary told him. "You've shaved this morning, but try some anyway." Jeff looked momentarily dubious, "You could sell mice?" Tommy demanded "might be sold to laboratories. I have an idea the Commission buys a supply thought about it. "Are they a pure the cloth, wiped again, and stared. "What is it?" "A whisker stiffener. It makes each hair brittle enough to break off right at the surface of your skin." "So I perceive. What is it?" for red mice might be rather limited. Why don't you consider making an after-shave lotion? Denatured alcohol, glycerine, water, a little color and perfume. You could buy some do your whiskers grow back the next You'd be in business before you knew it." day?" inquired, "How do you sell it?" "I see. Just a mixture of stuff. And can work there better than here, and if we're going to break the hearts of the razor industry, there's no better time to start than now." When they had driven off I turned use cosmetics and junk, but if they didn't have to admit it, they might like the shave lotion." Hilary had been deep in thought. He said suddenly, "Gosh, I think I know how to make a—what do you want to call it—a before-shave lotion." "What would that be?" I asked. "You'd use it before you shaved." "I suppose there might be people who'd prefer to use it beforehand," I conceded. "There will be people," he said of mine for making ball bearings." only it's a permanent magnet. Then bottles and have some labels printed. and a fat-soluble magnesium compound." agreed to underwrite lunches at the "You mean you're going to try to "Right on schedule," I said. "Even so, it's child labor, isn't it?" "Child labor nothing. They're the naturally. On the other hand, they be the only employees—just at first, anyway." make. me a small share of the company, and I'd be crazy to turn it down. After all, what's to lose?" Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. "and think about the small end. It'll work out all right." I wished that the youngsters weren't starting out by inventing a new article to manufacture, and risking an almost certain disappointment, but to How about enough color to leave your face looking tanned. Men won't could help them redesign it along standard lines. impractical, of course, for a group of children to attempt, but several of put tooth powder into tablets that one would chew before brushing the teeth. He thought there should be the blue ones designed to leave the nail and wood screw. You'd drive it in with a hammer up to the threaded part, then send it home with a few turns of a screwdriver. Hilary, reluctantly forsaking his chips but thinner and as cheap as possible, to scatter on a snowy sidewalk where they would pick up extra heat from the sun and melt the and spread on the surface of a reservoir to reduce evaporation. These latter ideas had made unknowing or end the slightest of twists. "There, it ought to swoop." Sure enough, in the moderate swooped and yawed to Mary's entire know that flattening the lower edge of the hole would create instability?" it? It changed the pattern of air pressures." "Oh, sure, but don't you think it bank? More businesslike?" "Doubtless," I said, "but banks generally want some security." I would for a two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar figured what's to lose, and picked one. Ridge Industries, how's that?" Everybody afford to look chintzy." I only told her about the success of and wood splints. There was no use and presently had a regular production line under way stapling the a resin solution and shaping them over a mandrel to stiffen, cutting the plastic film around a pattern, assembling were sold. to meet the demand, but this quantity would sell them the next week and

<question>:
How is Hilary's product going to kill the razor industry?

<options>:
A Before-shave breaks off whiskers, just apply and wipe away.
B Before-shave dissolves whiskers permanently.
C Before-shave dissolves whiskers for four to six weeks at a time.
D Before-shave will never kill the razor industry. That's just wishful thinking.

<answer>:

A