Word: mcdonald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hence he is heated 'n' served in an America that has managed to preserve only that which is ghastly in our own culture: a political leader who only appears before the public mouthing pious platitudes on TV, Rod McKuen's poetry, Walter Kean's paintings, McDonald's hamburgers and vegetables, which have carried the current trend toward tasteless giganticism to its logical extreme-strawberries as big as medicine balls, bananas taller than...
Turner, a sandy-haired lowan, started out in 1956 as a short-order cook, frying burgers at Ray Kroc's first McDonald's restaurant outside Chicago. Kroc then tapped him to keep an eye on new restaurants; he rose so rapidly that he never had time to claim the McDonald's franchise Kroc had promised him. As president since 1968, Turner has been in charge of day-to-day operations. Now he will take over some of Kroc's policy-planning role...
Turner assumes command at a time of skepticism about McDonald's chances for continuing its phenomenal growth. The price of the stock has fallen from 76% in late February to 44)4 recently, because of fears that driving curbs will bite deeply into the chain's business. Turner, however, notes that McDonald's has lately been building more restaurants in "walking" neighborhoods, especially in cities...
...first announcement as chief executive was that McDonald's next year will build even more new restaurants than the record 420 it is opening in 1973, and by week's end the company's stock had recovered 9% points, closing...
Barnaby pushed Dick Cashin up from the fourth spot to the third and Jeff Weigard up to number four. Fred Fisher played at five, Jim McDonald at six and Cass Sunstein at eight. Howland Murphy made the trip as the tenth...