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Business Population
Up in Rappahannock
Today, Larry L. Liles, district manager of the Baltimore office of Dun & Bradstreet, announced statement requests were mailed to 41 businesses in Rappahannock County. He said figures obtained from a physical count of the Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book for January, 1969 totaled 41 manufacturers, wholesalers, and -etailers in this area as compared with 37 in 1968 — an increase of 10.8 per cent for the period. Mr. Liles noted that each year business concerns in all parts of ,he United States are asked by Dun & Bradstreet for copies of heir financial statements. This /ear requests are being sent to nearly three million business concern — to the corner grocery ;tore, worth a few thousand lollars, as well as to businesses vorth millions. The Dun & Bradstreet teference Book lists those
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