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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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.
"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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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.
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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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.
By boiling the ingredients, Azizi extracts valuable oils, which can be sold on the international market for thousands of dollars per gallon.
Other income came from modelmaker Revell, giving him a cut of thousands of scale model kits of his cars sold in the mid-1960s.
At first Kosan set out to be a pure technology outfit, engineering bacteria to randomly produce "libraries" of thousands of new polyketides that could then be sold to big drug firms.
Thousands of the so-called CatClamps have been sold around the world, according to owner of the company.
Hybrids, already being sold by Honda and Toyota by the thousands, use battery-powered electric motors to assist traditional internal combustion engines.
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