A First Look At The USA (1-9)

　　
　　【USA-1】Unit 8 Superman
　　
　　"Look, up in the sky. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Everyone knows Superman. Old people know Superman. Young people know Superman. He is famous. Millions of people buy Superman comic books.
　　
　　Here is the story of Superman. It is 1939. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster are high school students. Jerry wants to be a writer. Joe wants to be an artist. They like to work together. One writes, the other draws pictures. They write stories with pictures for commix books.
　　
　　One day, Jerry has a at new idea. It is Superman! Superman is from another planet. But nobody knows. He lives like an ordinary person. Superman does good things for people. Joe draws Superman. Joe and Jerry want to sell their story. They want to make money. But nobody buys Superman. Finally, after many years, someone wants to buy Superman, Jerry and Joe are very excited. But they sell Superman for only a little money.
　　
　　Superman omes a at success. The people who own Superman make millions of dollars. But Joe and Jerry are poor.
　　
　　It is 1975. Joe cannot see well now. He cannot draw. He lives in a small apartment. Jerry works for very little money. The two men are both old and poor. They are angry, too. They tell the newspaper about their situation. Finally, the owners of Superman give Joe and Jerry some money. The money helps the old men. But it is not still much. Other people make a lot more money from Superman. It is also 30 years too late. Superman is famous. His owners are rich. But Joe and Jerry are not so lucky.
　　
　　
　　【USA-1】Unit 9 Potato Chips
　　
　　Potato chips are America's favorite snack. Where do potato chips come from? It's 1853. A Native American named George Crum makes the first potato chips. Crum is a chief in an expensive restaurant in Saratoga Springs, New York. One day, a customer does not like the french fries. He says they are too thick. So Crum makes more, this time thinner. The customer still does not like them. Crum gets mad. He decides to make the customer angry. So he cuts the potatoes very, very thin. The customer loves them.
　　
　　Other people want Crum's potato chips. Now, there is a new food on the menu - Saratoga chips. Soon Crum opens his own restaurant and he makes his special chips.
　　
　　It takes a long time to make potato chips. People peel the potatoes by hand. Then, in 1920, the automatic potato peeler changes everything. Now it is faster and easier to make potato chips. Now potato chips are not a specialty. They are a popular snack food, but only in the North.
　　
　　A salesman named Herman Lay wants to sell potato chips in the South. He sells potato chips in bag. His business grows. Today, Americans eat a lot of potato chips every day.

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