Toys That Make Music Are Hot This Year for Christmas Gifts
25 November 2010
The Spider-Man balloon floats through Times Square during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York on Thursday
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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I'm Doug Johnson. This week we play music from Kanye West’s new album …
And answer a question about cell phones ...
But, first, a report about the most important day of the year for American store owners and what is on the top of people’s shopping lists.
Sing-a-ma-jigs are a popular toy this year
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November twenty-fifth was Thanksgiving in the United States. Families and friends gathered in homes to share a dinner of turkey, cranberries, sweet potatoes, green beans and pumpkin pie. Millions of Americans share another tradition the day after Thanksgiving. They shop for Christmas presents. Katherine Cole tells about the day and what seems to be high on this year’s Christmas lists.
KATHERINE COLE: Police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania named the day after Thanksgiving "Black Friday" in the nineteen sixties. A huge number of shoppers were crowding the streets and creating terrible traffic problems.
Later the term came to mean a good day for business owners because they would sell a lot that day.
They might even go from debt to profit. Store owners traditionally would record debt in their business books in red ink and profit in black ink. That is the "black" in Black Friday.
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