How a 50-Year-Old Widow Secretly Built a Favorite American Brand

Now I've Heard Everything by Bill Thompson

Aug 28, 202600:31:21Arts

When her husband died in 1908, 50-year-old Rose Knox inherited America's largest manufacturer of unflavored gelatin. For a respectable woman then, running a national factory was unthinkable, so for six years she ran the...

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