Ray Kroc
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1902 - Ray Kroc is born in Oak Park, Illinois
1917
- Kroc drops out of high school to become an ambulance driver for WWI
1922 - Kroc begins to work for the company Lily-Tulip as a paper cup salesman and marries Ethel Fleming
1924 - Kroc’s daughter, Marilyn, was born in October
1929 - The Great Depression begins affecting Kroc’s paper cup sales
1938 - Kroc takes notice of the rise of milkshake mixers and founds his own company and works as a multi-mixer salesman
1954 - Kroc receives an order from the McDonald brothers for 8 multi-mixers
1955 - Kroc opens his first McDonald’s in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines
1961 - Kroc purchases the company from the McDonald brothers
1967 - McDonalds opens its first international restaurant
1984 - Ray Kroc dies with a net worth of 500 million and there over 8000 McDonald's are in the world at the time.
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