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LOS ANGELES, CAL.
Big, sprawling — and unique — Los Angeles draws new thousands every week. To help meet the telephone needs of this growing city and the rest of Southern California, Western Electric's Los Angeles Distribution Center recently moved into new and larger quarters.
Here, us at all 32 Western Electric distribution centers in the U.S., we stock and supply daily many thousands of items needed by the local Bell telephone company. Among them: telephone sets, wire and cable, tools, printed forms, many other products we make and buy for the Bell System. Of equal importance, our distribution center repairs and reconditions telephones and telephone equipment for reuse.
The job's a big one, requiring the help of some 860 of our Los Angeles neighbors . . . plus the thousands of men and women who work for our 555 suppliers in the city. (These suppliers, by the way, are only part of the state-wide total of 1,978 companies we purchased from last year.) Just as we benefit from their help, so Los Angeles shares in the prosperity we help create — jobs made possible, payrolls spent with local merchants, taxes paid.
Distributing benefits like these is a key part of our telephone job — in Los Angeles and across America.
Western Electric has manufacturing plants in 23 U.S. cities where we make telephone equipment for the Bell System. Last year we purchased 1 V* billion dollars worth of raw materials, products and services from over 37,000 suppliers located in every state. Of these, 90% are "small businesses." The things we make and buy are supplied to the Bell telephone companies through Western Electric distribution centers in 32 different cities, including Los Angeles.
DURABLE LEATHER Products, Los Angeles, makes leather tool pouches and belts for use by telephone company installers. Ben Sachs ( center ) owner of Durable discusses making of pouches with W.E.'s H.B. Flynn.
BOY SCOUTS are shown receiving expert rifle instruction from GENERAL CHAIRMAN of the Community Chest Western Electric's Lowell Sanford at nearby rifle range in the San drive Steve Broidy (right) President of Allied Artists PicGabriel Mountains. Many of our Los Angeles Distribution Center hires Corp., is shown with W.E.'s George Weigand who employees devote spare time to beneficial community activities like this. was loaned to help for 3 months by Western Electric,