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Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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de.The radio equipment had been com-pletely destroyed, however. New equipment to replace it hadbeen ordered prior to V-J Day, andinstallation was started—under diffi-culty—as soon at it arrived. Filipinos who had survived theenemy occupation returned to theirold jobs. One of them, a PhilippineArmy lieutenant, had lost his finger-nails under Japanese torture. Some of the technicians and operators re-turned with small but valuable itemsof equipment which they had takenhome before the enemy arrived andhad hidden during the occupation. Service with Manila opened inJanuary, 1946. By that time theManila exchange area had been suffi-ciently restored to permit direct over-seas connections to a limited numberof telephones in the city and at mili-tary and naval establishments nearby.A telephone center of the familiarpattern was set up in the downtownarea. Booking of calls from this centerbegan immediately, and was for atime considerably in excess of the ca-pacity of the two Manila-San Fran-
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Two-WAY telephone service between Manila and this country was restored lastJanuary. Here Americans in the war-torn Philippine city are booking calls and waiting to talk 1946 Three-Minute Furloughs 3S

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