The secretary who turned Liquid Paper into a multimillion-dollar business
The secretary who turned Liquid Paper into a multimillion-dollar business Bette Nesmith Graham invented one of the most popular office supplies of the 20th century. Today, she’s largely been forgotten. By: Zachary Crockett | @zzcrockett April 23, 2021 On a warm Texas night in 1956, Bette Nesmith — later known as Bette Nesmith Graham — sat in a garage surrounded by buckets of white tempera paint, empty nail polish bottles, and handmade labels. She didn’t know it then, but she was on the brink of something magical. The product she would eventually create — Liquid Paper, a white...
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