A month later, orders recorded the cashiering of the two colonels, for "conduct unbecoming officers and gentlemen".
The Commerce Department's report on factory orders recorded a strong gain, largely because of a surge in demand for airplanes.
Consumer spending rose for the fifth straight month, and durable goods orders recorded their biggest gain since March.
Influences: Kurt Schwitters, Andy Warhol, early i-D magazine, New Order record covers.
He organized these facts not, as in previous histories, simply as a chronologically ordered record but according to a new five-part plan.
The members of New Order consistently downplay their individual contributions, preferring to present themselves as a unit, but that hasn't stopped people from asking: Can a New Order record properly be a New Order record without Peter Hook? (But could it be one without Gillian Gilbert?) Where does the spirit of the band reside?
The previous announced, official pre-order record was 2 million, set by the iPhone 5 two years ago.
In 1970, at age 20, he founded a mail-order record retailer called Virgin.
One of the first businesses he founded in 1971, as a humble mail-order record retailer, has been sold to two of its directors.
After starting Virgin as a student magazine and a small mail-order record company, Branson has built an enormous and diverse set of brands.
