| The McDonald's History - 1965 to 1973 |
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| McDonald's Comes To Wall Street |
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In 1965 McDonald's went public with the company's first offering on the stock exchange. A hundred shares of stock costing $2,250 dollars that day would have multiplied into 74,360 shares today, worth approximately $3.3 million on December 31, 2006. In 1985 McDonald's was added to the 30-company Dow Jones Industrial Average. Click here for today's McDonald's stock price. |
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| A Big Idea Called "Big Mac" |
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"Introduced systemwide in 1968, the Big Mac was the brainchild of Jim Delligatti, one of Ray Kroc's earliest franchisees, who by the late 1960s operated a dozen stores in Pittsburgh." |
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| The Egg McMuffin |
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Introduced in 1973, the Egg McMuffin was developed by owner operator Herb Peterson. |
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