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Show UTAH HAS HIGH AVERAGE OF LIFE INSURANCE . i Utahns purchased $80,318 Cm worth of life insurance in 1947 the Institute of Life Insurance re ported Saturday. A good portion of this renre sented additions to the $624 078 000 in force in the state at th' end of 1946. cne Taking the monthly figure f the past seven years, the institute found that heaviest buying 0f in surance usually is done in Decern" ber, with spring and fall months also, bringing large sales totals. Life insurance in force in Utah in 1946, the last year of tabula amounted to $980 per capita. This compared with $730 in Idaho anri $780 in Wyoming. a The organization noted that ownership of such paper set a record re-cord rate of increase in 1946 and 1947. The two-year gain of $36-000,000,000 $36-000,000,000 reported from throughout through-out the nation equalled the total life insurance owned by U. S families in 1919. |