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'); Bette would go on to perfect her product and build a fortune around it, eventually creating foundations that did help empower working women. She took the paint with her to the office which made her work easier than usual. By 1970, the increase in sales stabilized at 34%, annually. var captchaVersion = document.createElement('input'); In 1956, Bette Nesmith started the Mistake Out Company: her son Michael and his friends filled bottles for her customers. return null; But it came down to inches. The couple spent most of their married lives apart while he served during WWII. Mistake Out became Liquid Paper. var prev_email = getCookieValue('funnel_email'); if(typeof hp_interval == 'undefined') { var cookieArr = document.cookie.split(";"); They would have one son in December 1942, Robert Michael Nesmith. 2023, Hustle Con Media, Inc., All Rights Reserved. After few trials and fails, Bette tried an odorless and colorless paint with a watercolor brush. This cookie is set by Sailthru. Used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. Try to name all the famous people on magazine covers in 1979. Slides: 10; Download presentation. For a variety of reasons - technology changes, increased access to education or better professional opportunities - the profession is on. In 1979, Bette Graham sold the company for $47.5 million dollars and royalties on every bottle until the year 2000. Bellis, Mary. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. In the mid-70s, well before Zappos adopted a holocracy model, Bette was innovating with organizational structure. By 1975, the company produced 25 million liquid paper bottles per year. Bellis, Mary. While Bette Nesmith Graham did not win any awards, but she sure was one of the most successful female entrepreneurs of her era. Afterward, she came to accept that her invention would come to help the world and beyond. In 1968, she opened an automated plant. But for decades, being part of a secretarial pool was an important employment option for millions of women. She opted to sell the company to Gillette Corporation for over $47.5 million in 1979. Clarity doesn't use ANID and so this is always set to 0. By 1975, Liquid Paper was producing 25 million bottles a year and holding a vast share of a multimillion-dollar market that had spawned several competitors, like Wite-Out. It was here that she went to work as a secretary in Texas. The transatlantic foursome ofMicky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Davy Jones wrote and recorded a surprising range of music, from beat pop to country and psychedelic. In 1976, they divorced and he tried to cut Graham out of the company by changing the formula and booting her off the board. This cookie is set by Snapchat. Graham later brought it to market and was soon leading an international business, based in Dallas, that produced 25 million bottles of Liquid Paper a year at its peak, with factories in Toronto and Brussels. However, she continued to participate in the final manufacture of Liquid Paper. var newVal = searchParams.get(utmName) || getCookie(cookieName); After her death, a share of her fortune went to the Gihon Foundation, which she founded in 1978 and is dedicated to researching global issues, and the Betty Clair McMurray Foundation, which supports women's projects.