Invention "Putty" Bette Graham earned $ 47 million

In 1942, Bette Clair McMurray at the age of 18 she married Warren Nasmyth, but the marriage did not last long, and soon she was left a single mother with a son. Although Bette studied painting with dreams of becoming an artist had to say goodbye because it was necessary to make a living. Finish the course secretaries, typists, she got a job in «Texas Bank & Trust» in Dallas. Here Bette faced with the problem of new electric machines were not used to it, and Bette allows many typos in the documents. "Then I remembered that the artists made a mistake, do not erase skholsta paint and obscure blot - recalled Bette - and decided to do the same. I took a little bit of white paint, tempera, spread it in water and the resulting mixture together with one of the watercolor brushes took her to the office ».

When Bette felt that it is time for the commercial launch, she bought a few dozen bottles from under the nail polish and fill them with paint, which renamed the «Liquid Paper» («Liquid Paper»).

In 1968 the company «Liquid Paper» establishes a factory capable of producing one million bottles of correction fluid in a year, and four years later, its factory has worked in Canada and Belgium. In 1979, «Liquid Paper» for $ 47 million bought the company «Gillette».

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