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...sales on the installment plan seems to indicate that consumers like it. Retailers now sell almost everything on installments-not only "hard" goods, the washing machines, jewelry, and automobiles of the 1920s, but also "soft" goods, tires, clothing, perfume, goods which are consumed quickly or which have no second-hand value-so retailers evidently like it. Finance companies handle about two-thirds of all installment sales and they like it. But Mr. Merriam does not like it. The finance companies, who are the most articulate defenders of the installment system, point to their Depression record. Between 1929 and 1932, though...
Plans were made for the purchase of second-hand dinghies similar to those used by the M. I. T. Sailing Club, to be procured from the club funds. "Use of boats will be the privilege of every member," said the committee...
John Sanford, white Georgia native, 27 years a sharecropper on various Emanuel County farms, once "made enough to buy two beds, half-a-dozen chairs, a dresser, a washstand, and the kitchen stove. An-other time he made enough to buy cheaply a second-hand automobile. The furniture has lasted, except for three of the chairs; the automobile did not last. He does not own anything else, except a change of clothes and a few odds and ends. His wife cuts his hair; he pulls the children's teeth when they begin to bother." Last year he made...
...other case, when the Coop gets exclusive tips straight from the stable, the student and the forgotten merchant are again on the short end of the stick in September. The latter does no business at all, while the student buys his books second-hand from the Coop for a fraction less than their original price, provided the Coop does not decide to suppress their used copies in favor of new ones. Thus, the unfortunate undergraduate finds his pennies dwindling away while he manages to salvage but a few from his dividend...
Such mild instructions in the front of textbooks as "in case of fire, throw this in" seem mild compared with the verse which turned up in a second-hand textbook bought last week, of which we are only able to print a part...