This Woman’s Company Should Have Been Named After Her, Not Her Husband
InfoChachkie
MARCH 2, 2019
On her lunch break, at the age of 20, Ruth entered a local furniture store with samples of her husband’s plastic chairs. In 1955, the company’s net work was $500,000 ($4.6 Elliott was a shy carpenter, while Ruth’s friends described her as, “beguiling and determined.”. She walked out of the store with a $500 purchase order.
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