installment buying

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While publicly deploring U.S. consumers who put themselves in debt, Soviet officials have quietly experimented with installment buying for two years.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1930 many a prophet predicted that bad times would kill installment buying, but C. I. T. flourished throughout Depression, last year cashed in on motor recovery.

From Time Magazine Archive

To curb the country's 8.3% inflation, controls have also been put on private lending, investment and installment buying.

From Time Magazine Archive

Automobile installment credit, the largest single category of installment buying, failed to make a gain over the previous month for the first time in two years.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sewing machine became the first widely advertised consumer appliance, pioneered installment buying and patent pooling, and revolutionized the ready-made clothing industry.

From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers