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
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
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
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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