Word: annunziata
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardest hit were businesses that depend on phone orders. "I might have to go under," said Ralph Annunziata, manager of a delicatessen that accounts for half of its sales with phoned orders. Florists cut off from Florists' Transworld Delivery complained that they could no longer say it with flowers; with their phones dead, funeral parlors in the area reported that business was "dying." Pharmacist Sanford Eidinger also had to contend with "people who come in off the street with prescriptions for all kinds of things." Apparently, addicts with stolen or forged prescription blanks were quick to take advantage...