tupper in A Sentence

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    Ironically, the only person who wasn't pleased was Tupper himself.

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    They told Tupper he could have as much as he wanted.

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    Tupper, who was so reclusive that few company employees even knew what he looked like, happily obliged.

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    In 1953 a public relations firm told Earl Tupper that he should make Brownie Wise the public face of the company.

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    Perhaps the biggest and most backhanded compliment Tupper ever paid to Brownie Wise came the day he sold the company in 1958.

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    And yet for all the advantages that Tupperware had to offer, it just sat on store shelves, even when Tupper promoted the launch with national advertising.

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    By 1957 Tupper was ready to sell his company, and in that male-dominated era he was afraid that he would never find a buyer if the company had such a forceful and powerful woman as its second-in-command.

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    When Tupper asked if they had anything else for him to work with, the company gave him a black, oily lump of polyethylene slag, a rubbery by-product of the petroleum refining process that collected at the bottom of oil barrels.

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    Though Wise had made him a millionaire many times over, and had served as the public face of Tupperware at his own request, Tupper grew increasingly resentful that she seemed to receive all the credit for making Tupperware the huge success that it was.

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    As Earl Tupper pored over the dismal sales figures, he noticed that Tupperware was popular with two types of customers: 1 mental hospitals, which preferred Tupperware cups and dishes to aluminum because they didn't dent or make noise when patients threw them on the floor;

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    By the early 1950s, she was ordering more than $150,000 worth of Tupperware a year(about $1.5 million today) for the sizable home party sales force she would built up, this at a time when Earl Tupper couldn't sell Tupperware in department stores no matter how hard he tried.

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