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the children consider.
We also consider the goods produced in the United States and exported. Children have brought in wheat, peanuts, cotton, apples, Coke, cars and even Levi’s jeans. “Where do you want to export your wheat?” To the Soviet Union? “Will the people buy it? Why can’t they grow their own? How will you get it there?” All of these questions must be answered.
Every year the children set up a manufacturing operation. They create a product such as April Fool bags, May baskets and this year ‘Ghostbusters.” Raw materials must be ordered, advertising plans made and assembly lines set up. The cutters measure string exactly 12 inches long or cut lollipops in units of two. Other children carefully wrap the lollipops with white tissue and tie a string near the base to make a ghost: j
Finally the ghost receives a scary black Magic Marker face, and is then placed with the finished goods. It’s no small operation; we'll make 400 ghostbusters.
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