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The article presents various announcements of several societies in the U.S. The 10th national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America will be held in San Francisco, California on November 15-16, 1956. The Johns Hopkins University will award the third annual Lanchester Prize of $1000 for the best operations-research paper published in calendar year 1956. The council of the Operations Research Society of America has agreed to underwrite the publication of a series of independent bound volumes called Operations-Research Monographs.

The article offers information on the 20th meeting of the Council of the Operations Research Society of America in San Francisco, California on November 7, 1961. Plans for the Third Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies were discussed. The National Problems Committee reported progress in its efforts to arrange for the application of operations research to problems of broad national interest.