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
In Italy, auto sales are down 10% so far this year, largely because of such government anti-inflation measures as higher auto and gasoline taxes and restrictions on installment buying.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soviet citizens next month will be able to sample that old staple of the U.S. consumer: installment buying.
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 Grace Rogers Cooper
