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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 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 reports on the plans for acquisition of the idle, repossed land of California by the migrant families and its impact on the non-relief families. It states that when Committee on Migrants of the California State Chamber of Commerce were urging federal aid, businessmen in Los Angeles and San Francisco were seeking a scheme of migrant rehabilitation on large scale. It mentions that the initial program would require establishment of homesteads and reports how banks are cooperating.

The article presents the author's account of his trip from Seattle to San Francisco. He loved Seattle, Washington's, cosmopolitan, uniquely American atmosphere. Stops on the author's trip included an obesity control clinic, Alcatraz prison in San Francisco, California, and Los Angeles, California, to which the author remarks on the city's lack of center and border.

The article focuses on the application of lie-detector tests by the Deception Tests Service Co. in Berkeley, California to employees as a response to the growing number of theft losses in the department stores in San Francisco and Los Angeles. It states that the Berkeley police department first tested the lie detector in 1921 which later on adopted into business through Deception Tests. Also presented various routine functions conducted by the company in the said detector test.

The article discusses BetterWorks, a company founded by Zao Yang, George Ishii, and Paige Craig which helps small businesses create benefit programs for employees. The company uses algorithms to track employee behavior and has custom settings which allow managers to adjust programs. The company operates in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, but intends to expand in 2012.