In the late 19th century on the Illinois River, which flows southwesterly through the state, decoys were carved by market gunners, who shot birds by the thousands and sold them to high-end restaurants like Chicago's Grand Pacific Hotel, which featured 20 species of game birds on its annual game-night menu.
It sold thousands of items, from computer gear to golf balls, at low, often unprofitable, prices.
They have already sold thousands of the dolls through their website, and shoppers have overwhelmed their offices with calls.
Thailand-based Norhtec's founder, Michael Barnes, says he's already sold thousands of the machines.
When the final instalment of the book series went on sale in 2007, thousands of copies sold in minutes.
He thought world demand for computers would number only a dozen or so per year, yet IBM sold thousands of 360s.
Since then Halperin has sold thousands of Mad magazines, some duplicates from his private stock, others consigned to the company by the Gaines family.
Since 1972, Texas based Air Tractor Inc. has built and sold thousands of top-line agricultural airplanes that have helped foster agricultural development in America and abroad.
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It will lack an assault weapons ban, which would limit hundreds of thousands of firearms sold each year, leaving gunmakers free to profit from the tremendous increase in demand brought by the fear of harsh anti-gun laws.
Meanwhile, Toyota, Honda and Ford have sold hundreds of thousands of hybrid electric vehicles collectively, and GM has sold just a handful.
So thousands of pubs were sold, many of them bought by companies which became known as "pubcos", which, as they did not manufacture drinks themselves, were exempt from the terms of the Beer Orders.
With hundreds of thousands of MacBook Airs sold every quarter last year, and an unprecedented (though unspecified) number of MacBook Pros being sold right now, it seems unlikely that the economy is solely to blame for the sluggish sales of Windows PCs.
It has been turned into sculpture and has sold by the thousands as a poster.
And A Suitable Boy, despite its detractors, sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world.
By the end of it, Alpine package tours were being sold by the thousands by Thomas Cook and his competitors.
U.K. operator 3 has sold hundreds of thousands of so-called Skype phones, which have built-in support for Skype's voice and instant-messaging software.
The album sold tens of thousands of copies many from the trunk of his own car more than enough to earn the attention of the major labels.
"I'm one of thousands of people who have sold land over the last few years and I don't see anything remarkable about it, " Mr Robinson said.
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Hundreds of thousands of Sony Readers have sold and you can now read five hundred thousand public-domain Google Books on it in ePub format but, oddly, people ignore it.
HarperCollins, for instance, has sold hundreds of thousands of cartridges in Britain that let users read electronic versions of classic texts on Nintendo DS portable game consoles.
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With make-believe Anglo names such as Wilton and Tarts, the counterfeit Brits were sold by the thousands, and examples can be found today in the formidable British Museum collection.
The new planes were supposed to be agile, stealthy and versatile a single-engine airframe produced in three variants that could be sold by the thousands both at home and abroad.
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It gained tens of thousands of followers, and was sold to Netscape.
But the stickered Arrested Development DVD, for example, sold "hundreds of thousands" of copies, according to Melnick, though the show still struggled to gain viewers on-air.
For years big technology companies that employed thousands of people, made and sold real products, and once in a while even exported actual American-made goods, had to accept being the fat targets of patent trolls.
Since late 2003, Baron claims, Sirius XM has sold "tens of thousands" of subscriptions to Baron's service. (Sirius declines to confirm that.) The devices can be found in newer Cessna, Cirrus and Piper aircraft and can be installed in boats and various mobile GPS gadgets for hunters and fishermen.
Thousands of these products are still being sold by brokers and banks with scant warnings to investors.
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She was not a great writer, yet her books sold in the hundreds of thousands and earned her finally millions of pounds.
While 70% of the "thousands" the company says it has sold since since October ended up outside living rooms, 30% went directly to individuals.
These are particularly damaging to government revenues because they are often standardised and sold to the wealthy by the thousands.
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