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The article reports on the launch of the periodicals "Los Angeles Aircraft Times" and "Long Beach Shipyard Times" for war worker readers in California. It states that the "Los Angeles Aircraft Times" circulates in eight assembly plants and extends in smaller factories within the city. It mentions that the periodical tracks technical plane developments and runs a column to help people from different areas locate each other and other news from different factories.

The article presents a discussion among five company presidents who attended the American Management Association's midwinter conference in Los Angeles, California in 1952. Don G. Mitchell, Morris B. Pendleton, Hugh L. Clary, Willard W. Keith, and J. L. Atwood were the five participants. Pendleton shares that the biggest challenge for an executive is time management, followed by classifying paper work. Atwood explains that their company has a management club organization and he tries to attend every meeting to improve communication with his employees.

Focuses on the liberated wallpaper conceived by the Los Angeles, California-based firm Bob Mitchell Designs.

Discusses the involvement of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in the ransack of the editorial office of the newspaper 'Los Angeles Star,' on October 23, 1974. Law employed by police to gain a search warrant against the newspaper; Lawsuit filed by 'Star' publisher Paul Eberle against the police department.

Reports on the revisions on the appearance of the monthly periodical 'Newsletter' for the legal aid society of the gay community Help Inc. in Los Angeles, California. Mode of distribution of the journal; Format of the periodical.

The article focuses on the move of the New York Times Co. to publish its Western edition of "The New York Times" in Los Angeles, California, with the goal of establishing a broader advertising base and becoming the first U.S. daily national newspaper. It says that the Times Western Edition contains the same national, business, and world news as the edition printed on West 43rd Street in New York City. The new edition is being circulated in various states such as Hawaii and Alaska.

The article reports on the labor dispute between the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) and the Women of the Pacific in Los Angeles, California. It states that the conflict begun when the CIO charged Edwin Selvin, head of the consumer's group, for involvement in a plot to colonize the trade unions in the city. It mentions that the accusation was announced by CIO radio broadcaster Tom Brown.

The article reports on the labor dispute which broke in the building industry in Los Angeles, California. It mentions that the Master Labor Agreement has been signed by building industrialist which covers that 2.20 dollars an hour scale will be given to carpenters. It informs that Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), the Building Contractors Association (BCA) of California have signed the Agreement unhappily. It reports that the Agreement is attracting labors to come back to work.

The article reports on the renewed rivalry between California cities San Francisco and Los Angeles over postwar air routes to Hawaii. San Francisco was the usual route for Hawaii bound passengers before the start of World War II until Los Angeles was given the permission starting August 10, 1941. The Civil Aeronautics Board is expected to discuss and finalized the issue on September 5, 1944, when it starts to receive application to carry passengers to Hawaii.

The article reports on the decision of impartial arbitrator Michael I. Komaroff that the two workmen of the North American Aviation Co., who were subjected to a disciplinary action due to the alleged smoking in a restroom of the company's Downey Plant in Los Angeles, California, were not actually smoking and were improperly disciplined.

The article focuses on the meetings of Office Employees' International Union (AFL-CIO) in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Engineers & Scientists of America (ESA) in Los Angeles, California on the organization of white-collar workers. The Office Employees complained on "Beckism," or the retarding impact of the Teamsters scandal on all labor activities, while ESA admitted being beset by employer offensives against the unionization of engineers. Both unions admitted unclear white-collar prospects.

The article reports on the offering of funeral insurance by several funeral homes in Los Angeles, California. It states that Southern California's mortuaries dubbed as big three are directly or indirectly connected to the insurance business. These three funeral homes and their insurance affiliates are Pierce Bros. Mortuary with Pierce Insurance Co., Forest Lawn Memorial Park with Forest Lawn Life Insurance Co., and Utter-McKinley Mortuaries with Constitution Life Co. of America.

The article discusses the construction of the Hollywood Parkway, a freeway project in Los Angeles, California, which has already cost 31 million U.S. dollars.

The article reports on the management-labor conference to be convened by the War Production Board (WPB) on July 9, 1942 in Los Angeles, California in order to arrive at an agreement in wage stabilization for Pacific Coast airframe plants.

The article focuses on the new technique for wrapping packages developed by workers in the packaging department of Barker Bros. in Los Angeles, California using a white corrugated paper and was decorated in a copyrighted black and white pattern.

The article discusses the implementation of the RVS Mark I order filling machine at the Brunswig Drug Co. warehouse in Los Angeles, California. Costing at 250,000 dollars the RVS Mark I developed by Industrial Electronic Engineers is capable of filling out an order for 160 products within a few seconds, and has reduced the number of order packers from 20 to 11 during peak hours. The report also describes the machine's workflow in relation to the standard procedure for processing an order through the Brunswig warehouse.

The article offers information on the launch of the 1.7 million dollar heavy ion linear accelerator (HILAC) by the University of California. It is stated that HILAC is a new type of atom-smasher and hurls its small nuclear bullets at their atom targets through a long tube. As stated, the University will utilize the new atom-smasher to explore many theories about nuclear forces and help in the study of the group of elements, which includes radium and thorium.

The article discusses how high-speed telephone lines made the linking of the San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges possible. The report cites the merging of the San Francisco and Los Angeles markets as two divisions under the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange (PCSE). The article notes that brokers are able to deal large transactions between both cities within a matter of seconds through a special telephone circuit, and have become less dependent on the New York Stock Exchange for routing stock purchases.

The article focuses on the business expansion of Ramo-Wooldridge Corp. in 1955 in Los Angeles, California. The completion of the construction of the company's 150,000-square-foot building is drawing near. The company, which employs 200 employees, expects to have 500 to 2,000 employees in five years. It mentions that its owners, Dean E. Wooldrige and Simon Ramo, have contracts for the development and design of military electronics systems.

The article reports that savings and loans holding companies in Los Angeles, California such as Great Western Financial Corp. and Lytton Financial Corp. are issuing promissory notes at interest rates over certificates of deposit from commercial banks, commercial paper, and Treasury bills. It states that the promissory note market had the chance of developing and distributing funds. It also mentions that the effort has brought benefits to both lenders and borrowers.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues related to business, including the three new office buildings being constructed in Los Angeles, California, the office building construction in Dallas, Texas, and the new model vacuum cleaner.

The article focuses in the study by the U.S. Public Health Service which determines how much work can a heart patient do without danger to himself and which patient can work on what job in Los Angeles, California. According to John H Wuest, the study director, the preliminary results indicate that many more cardiacs can go back to work. The study reveals that all cardiacs conserve energy on the job, though doing the same amount of work as others.

The article reports that artists of television station KFI in Los Angeles, California held a strike to force KFI to recognize American Federation of Labor's Television Authority as their collective bargaining agent.

The article reports on the discovery of Seaboard Oil Co. that the Elysian Park's ground in Los Angeles, California is impossible to hold oil.

The article reports on the revival of Canoga Park, California-based Xynetics Inc. from a loss of 2.6 million-dollar investment due to its drafting machine that had been wrongly configured in 1970. It describes a new linear motor with a growing number of end-product applications that helped company boost its sales. The specials features and capabilities of the new motor are also provided.

The article presents information on Eugene Meyer, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, who has made several efforts to handle emergencies in the nation. As managing director of War Finance Corp., Meyer made loans worth 340 million dollar for agriculture. Meyer was born in Los Angeles, California, and his father was a commercial banker. He studied at the University of California.

The article reports on the measures being taken by the U.S. federal government to solve water pollution in the country in 1947. The Congress has several bills that propose federal regulation of stream pollution reduction. Local groups of engineers and health officers are reportedly against such federal control but favored financial aid. Groundwater supplies in Los Angeles, California are being renewed to overcome the decline following the increased utilization of ground water as a source of pure water.

This article presents information about meetings related to the computer science. Some of them are as follows: The Winter Convention on Aerospace and Electronics Systems will be held at Baltimore Hotel, Los Angeles, California during February 11-13, 1969. The 4th International Exhibition of Industrial Electronics will be held in Basel, Switzerland during March 4-8. The Conference on Semiconductor Device Research will be held in Munich, Germany during March 24-27. The International Conference on Remote Data Processing will be held in Paris, France during March 24-28. The Seventh Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Computer Sciences in the Life Sciences at University of Texas, Houston during March 26-28. The 16th International TIMS Meeting will held at Hotel Commodore, New York City during March 26-29. The 9th Annual Computing Conference will be held in Florida State University, Tallahassee during March 27-29. The Sixth Annual National Information Retrieval Colloquium will be held in Philadelphia in May.

The article looks at the business of financing the fuel cores for the nuclear power generators of utility companies. Two dealmakers that demonstrated how weird off-balance sheet financing has become are Goldman Sachs and the Union Bank of Los Angeles in California. A device used to help finance mortgages on a large scale is letter-of-credit financing but this measure makes the Federal Reserve Board nervous. In the case of Union Bank, the firm set up a nuclear fuel trust with 100 percent debt with no equity, instead of establishing a shell company.

The article focuses on the grant of the Los Angeles City Board of Public Utilities to A. Guy Frum to operate his own bus line in Beverly Glen.

The article reports on the order issued by Superior Judge Emmet H. Wilson of Los Angeles forbidding the large grocery chains operating in California to sell goods at less than 23% markup price.

The article reports on the airport expansion plans of Los Angeles, California

The article reports on the decrease in the supply of walnuts by the California Walnut Growers Association in Los Angeles, California.

The article reports that several workers with physical disabilities have been employed in Los Angeles, California since 1941.

The article reports on the plan of the Southern California Restaurant Association to ask government authorities in the U.S. for a meal ticket plan to give restaurants credit for scarce foods eaten by service men on their way through Los Angeles.

The article presents information on Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) national conference in Los Angeles, California, from August 30 to September 1, 1966. ACM President Anthony Oettinger's remarked that professional responsibility is to make clear in good conscience and in bald truth what the real possibilities and capabilities of computers are, and to see that this gets to the highest reaches of Government. He was replying to guest panelist Robert H. Ryan from the U.S. President's Commission on Automation, Economics and Technology. Ryan appeared before the ACM to invite the ACM's backing for having Government's first national communications/computer network aimed at coping with the nation's health problem. He claimed that not only would the results bring prolonged life, relief of pain and the elimination of disease, but would be a first specific way that the computing profession could talk to every citizen of the nation to make him aware of the benefits to be had from the use of computers.

This article reports that "New Partners in Progress--Communications and Computers" is the topic to which Russell W. McFall will address his remarks when he presents the keynote address at the Association for Computing Machinery's 1966 National Conference on August 30, 1966. McFall, president of the West Union Telegraph Company, will speak at the opening session, which starts at 10 a.m. in the Main Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. McFall will explore the far-reaching advances to he expected from the current interphasing of computers and communications. As president of the company that considers itself the data communications facility of the future, he is well qualified to speak on this timely subject which offers many aspects for speculation on the control and design of a new utility of the future. Conference attendees will find in three convenient locations Recruitment Information Booths where room numbers and other information for each Registered company may be obtained.