As a symbol of American conquest, it’s easy to forget how McDonald’s was first received over seas. Back in 1974, Britons queued for hours at the opening of a Mickey D’s in London. (46) When the Golden Arches sprang up in Moscow not long after the fall of the Berlin wall, they were celebrated as a sign of liberation. In 1994, the drive-through line on opening day in Kuwait City was seven miles long.
What to make, then, of McDonald’s recent warning to Wall Street, when it announced that it will post its first quarterly loss in 37 years as a public company (47)For much of the past decades, McDonald’s has been the most typical high-growth multinational, jumping from success to. success and building a uniquely American empire. The number of its restaurants worldwide rose by a third in the past eight years alone--to 30, 000, including some 17, 000 outside the United States. Along the way, it has become a model for entrepreneurial succ
As a symbol of American conquest, it’s easy to forget how McDonald’s was first received over seas. Back in 1974, Britons queued for hours at the opening of a Mickey D’s in London. (46) When the Golden Arches sprang up in Moscow not long after the fall of the Berlin wall, they were celebrated as a sign of liberation. In 1994, the drive-through line on opening day in Kuwait City was seven miles long.
What to make, then, of McDonald’s recent warning to Wall Street, when it announced that it will post its first quarterly loss in 37 years as a public company (47)For much of the past decades, McDonald’s has been the most typical high-growth multinational, jumping from success to. success and building a uniquely American empire. The number of its restaurants worldwide rose by a third in the past eight years alone--to 30, 000, including some 17, 000 outside the United States. Along the way, it has become a model for entrepreneurial succ
This is the story of a sturdy-American symbol which has now spread throughout most of the world. The symbol is not the dollar. It is not even Coca-Cola. It is a simple pair of pants called blue jeans, and what the pants symbolize is what Alexis de Tocqueville called "a manly and legitimate passion for equality ..."
(2) Blue jeans are favored equally by bureaucrats and cowboys; bankers and deadbeats; fashion designers and beer drinkers. They draw no distinctions and recognize no classes; they are merely American.
(3) 41. __________.
(4) This ubiquitous American symbol was the invention of a Bavaraian-born Jew. His name was Levi Strauss.
(5) He was born in Bad Ocheim, Germany, in 1829, and during the European political turmoil of 1848 decided to take his chances in New York, to which his two brothers already had emigrated. Upon arrival, Levi soon found that his two brothers had exaggerated their tales of an easy life in the land of the main
(1) This is the story of a sturdy American symbol which has now spread throughout most of the world. The symbol is not the dollar. It is not even Coca-Cola. It is a simple pair of pants called blue jeans, and what the pants symbolize is what Alexis de Tocqueville called "a manly and legitimate passion for equality ..."
(2) Blue jeans are favored equally by bureaucrats and cowboys; bankers and deadbeats; fashion designers and beer drinkers. They draw no distinctions and recognize no classes; they are merely American.
(3) 41. ___________
(4) This ubiquitous American symbol was the invention of a Bavarian-born Jew. His name was Levi Strauss.
(5) He was born in Bad Ocheim, Germany, in 1829, and during the European political turmoil of 1848 decided to take his chances in New York, to which his two brothers already had emigrated. Upon arrival, Levi soon found that his two brothers had exaggerated their tales of an easy life in the land of the m
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