installment buying
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The Federal Reserve Board this week promised the public its first taste in over four years of the old American custom of installment buying.
From Time Magazine Archive
More immediate cause of American Piano's difficulty however, is installment buying, which while it has helped to sell pianos has not added any appreciable amount to their working capital.
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Another indication that consumers were growing cautious came from an FRB report that installment buying dipped $435 million in February.
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
It is for them to provide facilities for the transaction of business, cash money, credit instruments, installment buying, means for changing money, insurance, discounting facilities.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott
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