Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Across the far north of Canada and Alaska, Litton klystron tubes generate radar beams for the Distant Early Warning line. At almost every sizable U.S. airport, Litton antennas help control flights; in universities, Litton digital desk computers solve calculus jawbreakers. Litton claims to be the nation's biggest seller of desk calculating machines, the broadest supplier of TV replacement transformers (more than 900 different models), one of the two largest makers (along with American Bosch Arma) of inertial guidance systems for missiles...
...Canada's trade deficit with the U.S.: "The U.S. and Canada are not state traders," said Ike. "All the products of industry manufactured in the U.S. and sold abroad are sold through the enterprise of the private seller. These articles come to you in Canada only because of the desire of the individual Canadian consumer to buy a particular piece of merchandise . . . To try to balance our books once a month or once a year with every nation with which we trade would stifle rather than expand trade...
Chocolate-Flavored Cereal. A chocolate-flavored, sweetened corn cereal, Cocoa Puffs, which is made by General Mills and has become the company's second biggest seller in Canada, is now being distributed to wholesalers and stores in the U.S. Price: about 27? for an 8½-oz. package...
...symbolized by a party given by one of the Thirteen for Gestapo officers; it cost 25,000 zlotys. At the dregs of the ghetto, corruption was symbolized by the episode of a famished woman who stole a bagel, still enjoying a morsel while the blows of the bagel seller fell upon...
...toasted ants it is always a seller's market in Colombia. A favorite cocktail delicacy, and popularly reputed to give their eaters courage, they are so highly regarded that Colombians call them the "caviar of Santander." The only thing they dislike about the ants this season is the sky-high price of ten pesos ($1.34) per lb. (about 150 ants...