Institute activities: Los Angeles technical meeting well received in aircraft center

Held in an area having extensive aircraft industries with a program predominantly devoted to electrical equipment for military air craft, the AIEE Los Angeles technical meeting at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, Calif., August 29-September 1, was outstandingly successful. Keen interest was displayed throughout the program, which was by far the heaviest in technical content ever held by the Institute on the Pacific Coast. The registration of 561 was the highest ever obtained at a Pacific Coast meeting; 133 of these registrants mere nonmembers. Distant members had been requested by the AIEE executive committee to give serious consideration to the acute travel congestion and to whether or not their attendance would really aid the war effort. Proceeds from the sale of technical papers amounted to $475.70 in contrast to a total of $49.75 at the Pacific Coast meeting in 1940.