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The article reports that after the legalization of paper milk containers in Chicago, Illinois, the containers are already being used for quarts of milk sold daily in retail stores.

The article reports on the decision of the federal district to end the two-year resistance by the Chicago Board of Health against the efforts of Dean Milk Co. to sell milk in paper in Illinois. It highlights the claim of the Board of Health in which paper milk bottle is considered unsafe, unstandard and unsanitary. It states that paper bottles adds extra cost to milk dealers amounting to one cent per quart of milk.

The article presents information on the Chicago newspaper "The Sun." It was the most violently belligerent paper in the U.S. during its early stages. Chicago was led to expect a great paper. Chicagoans disagreed as to what constituted a great paper, but they agreed on certain factors. It would be well written and well edited. It would be mechanically excellent. It would be complete. It would be independent. It would be original. And-this went without saying in Chicago it would be a lighting paper. The bourgeoisie was sure it would fight the Kelly machine. The progressives were sure it would fight the "Tribune."

The article discusses the impact of inflation on the newspaper and other publishing industry operating in Chicago, Illinois region. According to analysts, inflation and the inroads of television and magazines have forced 42 daily newspapers to merge since 1960. Daily circulation of Chicago's papers has declined since 1960 from 2.4 million to 2.2 million due to the tough economic climate leading to inflation. The advent of television has affected the sale of newspapers. For example, early evening television news programs have hurt afternoon newspaper sales everywhere in the U.S. Some of the newspapers affected by inflation include, "News," "Today," and "Tribune."

The article reports that consumers flocked to depression-born currency exchanges in Chicago, Illinois in order to purchase money orders with which to pay taxes. It cites factors that contribute to the growth of the currency exchanges including fat pay checks from war manufacturers and difficulties of many workers in getting to banks during normal banking hours. It notes that banks are encouraged by West Coast plane manufacturers and shipbuilders to establish branches in or near their plants.

The article focuses on the diversification of Chicago, Illinois-based Container Corp. of America (CCA). CCA President Leo H. Schoenhofen announced that the firm will not be restricted to paperboard and plastic packaging. The diversification strategy of CCA is said to be a defensive move since pulp and paper manufacturers are encroaching upon CCA's private preserve. The key elements of CCA corporate strategy are the orientation toward sales and decentralization.

This article presents information about several meetings related to academic societies. The American Political Science Association held its eleventh annual meeting in the Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois during December 29- 31. In many respects this was the best meeting which the Association has ever held. The attendance was large, the program were all of unusual interest anti timeliness and a successful effort had been made to give an opportunity in connection with each session for an enlivening discussion from the floor. The thirtieth annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held at Chicago on December 28-31, and attended by nearly three hundred members, was an unusually satisfactory one, due in part to the high general level of excellence and interest of the forty papers presented, and in part to the comfortable arrangements of the entertainment committee, by which most of the members were housed in the sane hotel in which most of the papers were read.

The article reports on the assembly of the Motor and Equipment Wholesalers' Association (M.E.W.A.) in Chicago, Illinois.

The article narrates the author's experience as an interviewer of a newspaper. In early 1917, he began reporting in Chicago, Illinois wherein he regarded his functions, form and performance as limited. He has interviewed a lot of prominent persons and public officials such as the Secretary of Agriculture. He explained that their paper was always embroiled in political feuds.

The article reports on the decision of the "Chicago Sun" newspaper to give its advertisers rebates on their total expenditures for space in its weekday issues in Illinois during the first half of 1942. It says that the 7.64 percent rebates are estimated to be around 50,000 U.S. dollars, which represent a voluntary refund of the difference between the estimates of the pre-publication circulation and the actual audited circulation from January 1 to June 30, 1942. The new advertising rates for the second half of 1942 are also discussed.

The article reports on the problem of pre-packing of fruits and vegetables, which was discussed at the yearly session of the Packaging Institute in Chicago, Illinois in 1946. It was discussed that the pre-packing of fresh produce in consumer-size units will need vast amounts of special papers and sheetings and machines that have not been conceived yet. Products that went into glass and paper during World War II have returned to metal cans. The production of glass container increased in October 1946.

The article focuses on the competition among four Chicago, Illinois daily newspapers owned by two companies. It states that the papers which include, "Tribune," "News" and "Sun-Times" are competing for news beats and circulation, advertising and impact. However, it notes that unlike in the past which the only concern is circulation gains, the papers now contend just to keep from losing readers. It adds that despite the situation, both publishers are not yet considering a merger.

The article focuses on the changes in "The Chicago Tribune" newspaper. The paper slowly changed its flamboyant ways after the death of colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, the man who ran the "Tribune," through the effort of editorial staff in charge Don Maxwell, general manager J. Howard Wood, and Tribune Co. president and publisher Chesser M. Campbell. Despite the changes, the paper continues to follow the command of McCormick and to cover Chicagoland better than any of its competitors.

The article offers information on the United Automobile Workers of America's Seventh Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois which is considered to be the most unruly and rowdiest meeting due to threats made by member employers to not cooperate unless their wartime demands are met.

The article presents information on the National Computer Conference and Exhibit (NCCE). It is the single annual national computer conference of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies. For and by computer specialists and end users, the 1974 NCCE will take place from May 6 to May 10, 1974, at Chicago, Illinois' McCormick Place. Stephen S. Yau, general conference chairman, states that emphasis at NCCE 74 will be on present and future applications of data processing equipment and techniques, with special attention to computer productivity as it relates to the user. Data processing products and services will be shown by more than 250 exhibitors in over 800 booths. Almost every phase of computer science and data processing will be assessed in 119 sessions scheduled throughout the five days. Under the direction of Theodore M. Bellan, vice president of Computer Services for McDonnell Douglas Automation Company, the NCCE program will offer in-depth coverage of ten critical user areas and of five specific areas in computer science and technology.

The article focuses on issues surrounding the move of the city council in Chicago, Illinois to pass an ordinance that would legalized the use of paper milk containers.

The article focuses on various events during the Machine Tool Show which was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois in August 1965. It denotes the presentation of several equipment and tools from different companies including 4-axis turret lathe from General Electric, high-precision jig borers, and heavy-duty profiling machine. Several executives attended the event such as Julian C. Pease and John S. Randall.

The article reports on the acquisition of "Chicago Daily News" newspaper by "Chicago Sun-Times" newspaper owner Marshall Field, Jr. in 1959 in Chicago, Illinois. It mentions that the ownership of both "Chicago Sun-Times" and "Chicago Daily News'" provides Field the ability to compete with the "Chicago Tribune" and its satellite "American." The article discusses the daily circulation of "Chicago Tribune," "Chicago-Sun Times," "American" and "Chicago Daily News."

The article features artist Janet Maas Satz. She first studied painting with Nicola Ziroli at the University of Illinois in Chicago, then transferred to The Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in the middle of her junior year. Since 1950, she has making drawings and paintings, then shifted her focus on fine arts and the technique of the wood cut when she and her family moved to Rye, New York. Satz shares that she enjoys working with litho crayon on cameo paper, which is a clay-coated paper.

The article reports that the strike, called by the United Automobile Workers (C.I.O.) on December 5, 1938 against the two papers in Chicago, Illinois, the Herald Examiner and the American, has been supported by trade unions, the local Catholic weekly, the New World, and by the labor press nearly everywhere. Unbiased observers have claimed that the strike was nowhere near an end. It has also been reported by the Chicago Guild that approximately 212 advertisers are boycotting the papers.

The article focuses on the Association for Computing Machinery annual conference to be held in Chicago, Illinois on August 3-5, 1971. The association will make it a memorable event with offerings to suit all the diverse tastes and interests of its broad membership and the computer community. A surprise highlight of the conference will be the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the invention of the prototype large-scale digital electronic computer ENIAC. The invention and pioneers of the industry will come together at the Conrad Hilton, where in two special sessions they will pay tribute to a quarter-century of progress and will forecast for the coming quarter-century. In addition, presentations of nine "single" papers have been individually scheduled in the program. Coordinated by nearby universities, interactive utilization of computers by high school students and continuous teaching of a Fortran subset will illustrate university-secondary school cooperation in computer education.

The article presents the findings of a survey by the Chicago Plan Commission on the utilization and condition of land and dwellings in several areas in Chicago, Illinois.

The article reports that Chicago news writer Mike Royko wrote in a column in the newspaper "Portland Oregonian," that automobile salesmen are lying most of the time. In response, the Auto Dealers Association organized a protest in Portland, and decided to withdraw their classified advertisements for 30 days from "Portland Oregonian," and its sister paper, the "Oregon Journal." Thereafter, car dealers all over Chicago, Illinois, were phoning Mike Royko in protest.

The article mentions the magnetic sound tracks from Armour Research Foundation of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois.

The article offers information on a meeting that was conducted by "Chicago Sun-Times" newspaper publisher Marshall Field, assistant publisher Marshall Field Jr., and the emergency committee of the Sun-Times Newspaper Guild unit at the newspaper plant in Chicago, Illinois in April 1950. The meeting focused on the newspaper's financial problems. Field announced his plans of terminating the newspaper's evening editions and re-launch it as a morning paper.

The article reports that the profit-sharing scheme remains popular among management programs that link output and pay. The idea of profit-sharing came from H. C. Nicholas, president of Quality Casting Co., Orrville, Ohio who said it would give workers a proprietary interest in free enterprise. The article cites interest in the profit-sharing scheme by The Council of Profit Sharing Industries in Wooster, Ohio, Continental Paper Co. in Ridgefield Park, New Jesey and the Profit-Sharing Union in Chicago, Illinois.

Reports on the gay community's criticisms against Chicago, Illinois' newspaper, 'Daily News' unfavorable treatment of stories about gays. Protests against columns of writer Mike Royko; Publisher Marshall Field III's letter in response to Michael A. Bergeron for the United Front of Gay Organization; Vice president of Chicago Gay Alliance, William B. Kelley's citing of articles of the acquisition of a local architectural; landmark by a group of men sympathetic to gays.

The article features Basil Leon Walters, Chicago Daily News editor and announces his retirement from the paper in 1961. It states that publisher Marshall Field Jr. considers Walters as among the best editors of their time. It also notes that Walters had the disconcerting habit of stopping reporters on their way to the typewriter and asking to hear their story with the stenographer.

The article reports on the decision of a U.S. court to auction Chicago, Illinois-based Mather Tower to finance the planned Alonzo Mather Aged Ladies Home.

In March, 1937, the idea of publishing a magazine for the masses who had lost faith in the newspapers was discussed by three persons in Chicago. David A. Smart, young and rich, had made a success with a clothing-trade paper called Apparel Arts, Arnold Gingrich, novelist and art connoisseur, had years ago proposed a magazine for men only, the two had produced Esquire, now selling 600,000 copies a month, and later Coronets which thrived despite the depression and lack of advertising. The third man was Jay Cooke Allen, one of America's great journalists. Allen was to be editor. The magazine was to be called Ken-the Insiders' World. Ken's left-of-center policy was definitely settled when Smart, back in America, received a letter from Allen in Paris explaining the French Peoples Front.

The article reports on the factors which improved the financial performance of Chicago, Illinois-based Brink's Inc. in 1965. It states that the company's sales increased from 25 million dollars in 1958 to 35 million dollars in 1964. It notes that the development is associated on the firm's cost control effort, decentralization, and overseas expansion.

Information about several papers discussed at the six-day scientific talkathon of the 126th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago, Illinois. Topics include the new evidence of the causes of lung cancer and the life of a test tube. The meeting featured Dr. Wilhelm C. Hueber, Dr. Sidney W. Fox, and Dr. Leontine Goldschmidt.

The article presents information about various publications. Callaghan & Co., Chicago, Illinois, announce a forthcoming translation of "Principles of Political Economy," with additional chapters by the author, prepared expressly for this edition, on Paper Money, International Commerce, and Protective Duties. This great work has passed through thirteen editions in Germany, and has been translated into most of the languages of Europe. In an another news, an important paper recently presented by professor C.E. Norton at the Academy of Arts and Sciences, throws new light on the mode of construction of the Greek temples.

Highlights the meeting of the American Economic Association at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. History of the association; List of attendees; Contributions of the association's president, Wesley Mitchell, to the organization; Total number of association members; Important aspects of the present trend in economics; Awakening of the interest of economists in the law; Relations between law and economics; Views of the author about the paper of professor Karl Lewellyn.

The article offers information on the performance of new "Chicago Sun-Times" newspaper after its first publication in Chicago, Illinois. It mentions that the newspaper reveals its health operations after people inquire on the status and circulation movement. Also outlined is the changes in personnel management of the periodical following the resignation of Director Jack Stenbuck.