Business: Installment Selling

John J. Raskob of General Motors Corporation gave a great banquet in Manhattan last week to Professor Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman of Columbia University. Invited to attend were more than 500 potent U. S. businessmen, financiers & economists—from Vice President Norman I. Adams of the National Shawmut Bank, Boston, to President L. S. Zimmerman of the Maryland Trust Co., Baltimore. They came less to eat than to hear Professor Seligman explain the first thorough analysis of the installment selling problem.

The Problem. Last year approximately $38,000,000,000 worth of goods were sold in the...

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