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Peoples Life Tops
Billion Mark
Peoples Life Insurance Com. pany, Washington, D. C. which has a district office in Fredericksburg managed by H. J. Lowe, has reported that record sales during the first six months of 1963 lifted the firm’s life insurance in force above the $1 billion mark for the first time.
88.2%