From AA's Scrapbooks: 1942

Last month we referred to 1941 as a year of great AA growth, primarily resulting from Jack Alexander's Saturday Evening Post article published in March. The development of AA in that year was a tremendously stimulating and vital experience, but it brought with it many new and unanticipated problems. Not only were established groups confronted with an influx of new members but all over the country groups were springing up spontaneously. In most cases these were guided into life solely by the Big Book, letters from the central office or an occasional visitor from a more seasoned center. The need for a workable structural formula was urgent.