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Rappahannock County proved to be a co/nparatively strong market during the past year, according to a national survey of business activity, just released. Despite the fact that the country was going through a period of recession, which affected every corner of the nation, the local area’s economy held np relatively well. Just how well is to be seen in its income and consumer spending figures. The details are contained in the new, copyrighted “Survey of Buying Power,’’ issued by Sales Management, a marketing publication. It analyzes communities in every section of the country with respect to their family earnings, spending and growth potential. In Rappahannock County, it shows, the level of income was high in the year. Local residents had net earnings, after payment of ’ their personal taxes, of $8,471,000, as against the previous year’s $8,326,000. Just what this amounted to, as ' far as the individual family was ’ concerned, was found by dividing the overall income by the number
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