On this episode of Our American Stories Brownie Wise didn't invent Tupperware but she turned it into an American institution A single mother with little formal education Wise discovered a talent for direct sales and eventually convinced inventor Earl Tupper to take his plastic containers out of department stores and sell them through parties held in American homes Tupperware parties Mary Lisa Gavenas tells how Wise rose to become Tupperware's vice president of sales built a nationwide army of mostly female sellers and transformed the Tupperware party into a cultural phenomenon of s America But after landing on the cover
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