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
With loans suddenly more costly, housing sales began to suffer, as did installment buying.
From Time Magazine Archive
The directive, which outlawed military "installment buying" for all services, will hit the Air Force hardest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The picture is much the same in home mortgages, installment buying and personal loans.
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 Grace Rogers Cooper
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