GRINDING IT OUT: The Making of McDonalds By Ray Kroc and Robert Anderson Mr. Krog sold paper cups for Lily Tulip Cup company for seventeen years at $35.00 a week and played piano part time to support his wife and children in the early twenties. He was born in Oak Park, Chicago Ill. His father Louis Kroc left school in the eight grade to work for Western Union and steadily but slowly worked his way op …showed first 75 words of 1156 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1156 total…Kroc as one of fifty people who had made the greatest contribution to the American way of life. They ranked him with psychologist Abraham Maslow, theologian Reinhold Neibuhr, and civil right leader Martin Luther King Jr. in the category of visionaries. Author Tom Robbins in a piece for Esquire said of Mr. Kroc “Columbus discovered America, Jefferson invented it, and Ray Kroc Big Mac’d it. Bibliography Grinding It Out: The Making Of MCDonalds Printed: 1977