installment buying
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Soviet citizens next month will be able to sample that old staple of the U.S. consumer: installment buying.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The picture is much the same in home mortgages, installment buying and personal loans.
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.
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
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