installment buying
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As insurance against a future turn for the worse, they also recommended price, wage and rationing controls and restored curbs on installment buying.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the recession picked up momentum in early '58, the fear was that installment buying would plummet and, with a wave of repossessions by finance companies, pull the economy down farther.
From Time Magazine Archive
Consumer debt, the kind that results from credit-card purchases, installment buying and other small loans, has jumped since 1975, from $197 billion to $289 billion.
From Time Magazine Archive
With loans suddenly more costly, housing sales began to suffer, as did installment buying.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into the American economy thus came the now-familiar installment buying.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Grace Rogers Cooper
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