How Did You Get Into Plastics?

Earl Tupper had a book of inventions that didn't catch on. He ended up manufacturing these things and giving them away as premiums for other stuff like cigarettes, right? So he starts a tree doctor business, Tupper tree doctors, that failed after the depression people were cutting back on things like tree doctoring. And in a very fortuitous move went and worked for viscaloid plant, which is a division of DuPont making plastics.