Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charlotte Nelson, a member of the Communications Office who compiles the directory, said that the office delays the publication of the book each year in order to insure its accuracy...
...staff plans Loeb productions at least one year in advance. "In order to plan for the future, we ought to know what is going on," he added...
Many people outside awaiting admittance to Cabot Hall attempted to sneak into the building by removing screens in order to climb in the windows. This caused police and Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, master of South House, to decide to end the party early...
...mail-order surge is by no means confined to holiday hedonism. While mail order has long been a mainstay for publishers of magazines and books, other firms are being lured into the field, partly because of its attractive economics. Fancy catalogues can be expensive to prepare and distribute, but it costs even more to maintain stores and sales staffs; and mailorder firms generally enjoy a profit of 6% on sales, whereas that of conventional retailers...
...result, all sorts of retailers are stepping up their mail-order activity. Bloomingdale's used to put out catalogues just to draw customers into its stores; now mail and phone orders account for a substantial part of its business. At Montgomery Ward, where mail-order business slumped sharply in the 1950s and early 1960s, catalogue sales are back at record levels...