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activity. This output, which came to $743 billion last year and which is rising well above that figure this year, takes into account personal spending, industrial outlays for plant expansion and all other disbursements, public and private, including those for national defense. The major part of it, by far, according to the National Industrial Conference Board and the Department of Commerce, was consumer spending, which amounted to no less than $465 billion, or almost two-thirds of the total. Rappahannock County accounted for approximately $3, 020,000 as its share of this total, carrying its own weight on the basis of population. Consumer spending for
90.8%