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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans should live more like animals" was the advice that John Rock '15, clinical professor of Gynecology, laid before a medical conference in Los Angeles yesterday...
What sparks the Chamber's fervor? Said Morris Pendleton, president of Los Angeles' Plomb Tool Co.: "We know that Los Angeles is a big city but not yet a great city. We get a hell of a kick out of trying to make it great...
...about its main job of luring in new businesses by 1) buttonholing virtually every bigwig who comes to town, and 2) never letting a prospect off the hook. For example, Chamber representatives first approached a Pennsylvania radiator company in 1933 with studies showing how it could make money in Los Angeles. Every year thereafter they came around to elaborate on their inducements. By 1946, some of the company's officers could no longer resist a trip west to look over possible sites. When they found a likely one, the Chamber arranged for them to buy it. Upshot: last month...
Hats Outside. The group interests of Los Angeles' promoters often conflict with their private interests. Last year the Chamber campaigned for more highways, to be financed by a boost in the gasoline tax. Oilmen who are members of the Chamber not only opposed the idea, they spent thousands to fight it. Chamber President Clarence Beesemyer is an oilman himself (vice president of General Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc.). But he helped the Chamber fight the program through the state legislature...
...Benson will have plenty of both. The L-M Division is now turning out 800 Lincolns, Mercurys and Continentals a day. By next spring, when three new assembly plants (Metuchen, N.J., St. Louis and Los Angeles) get into production, the company hopes to step up production and give Cadillac, Chrysler, Oldsmobile, Dodge, Pontiac and Buick a run for their money...