Word: cater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cater v. Catty...
...Paul Jones were still selling well. These four brands had taken advantage of cheap tobacco, the advertising done by the "standard brands," and the opportunity to make money with a small margin of profit ($0.2315 per 1,000, against $1.226 per 1,000 for the 15-centers) to cater directly to Depression-hit smokers. Tycoons Hill, Williams, Toms & Belt, whose advertising had increased U. S. cigaret consumption from eight billion to 119 billion in 20 years, were vexed...
...cater to suburban trade, large retailers have for some time been experimenting with two kinds of small stores. Chain stores have been highly successful in selling standardized merchandise at low prices for cash. Branch stores (subsidiaries of a large central unit, as distinguished from chains of small units) hitherto have had two handicaps to overcome: 1) they have been unable to carry the huge stocks that have made successes of such stores as Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co.; 2) in the case of stores specializing in a few types of goods, the branches have not always been able...
...Dalton, Ga., Proprietor Laceville Cochran of the Belmont Café, no longer able to cater profitably, announced that his food was free to all, put on his coat and walked away...
...that the number of courses required for a degree and the number of hour examinations in the individual courses are to be reduced the tutorial system finally comes into its own. Since its inception more than a decade and a half ago the student has always been forced to cater both to it and to the old ideal of education by courses which involved frequent checks and stressed purely factual knowledge. Through the years there were progressive changes, to be sure: the introduction of the Reading Period; the Junior Divisionals in History, Government, and Economics; and the more recent modifications...