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GRINDING IT OUT. Copyright © 1977 by Ray A. Kroc. Afterword copyright © 1987 by Robert Anderson. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Kroc, Ray, 1902–1984.

    Grinding it out: the making of McDonald’s / Ray Kroc, with Robert Anderson.

            p. cm.

    ISBN 978-0-8092-8259-3 (hardcover)

    1. Kroc, Ray, 1902–1984. 2. McDonald’s Corporation. 3. Restaurateurs—United States—Biography.

    TX910.5.K76 A34 1977

    647'.9573

    [B]

76056878

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