installment buying
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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
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
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
Into the American economy thus came the now-familiar installment buying.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers
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