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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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flood of calls to all parts of States Army Communications Sys-tem. The circuits terminate at Seat-tle, where they are interconnectedwith Bell System wire facilities forthe completion of calls throughoutthe United States. Service menstationed at Nome, Adak, Anchor-age and other Alaskan points havefound this conversational link withthe States of great value. Some ^ 1946 Three-Minute Furloughs 23 2500 calls a month, most of thempersonal calls by G.I.s, have beencompleted from Alaskan points viathe Armys radio system. The European Theater In the winter of 1944, as the pros-pects of victory in Europe becamedaily more encouraging, the Bell Sys-tem began to plan not only to restore had new responsibilities, and wouldassume a new place, in the world.And—of most immediate importance—at the close of the war manyAmericans would be in foreign lands,eager for the sound of voices fromhome. As to conditions in enemy-occupiedterritories, nothing was known con-cerning the state of the radio tele-
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Men by the truckload poured into Panama City to place calls to the United States the overseas services that had beendisrupted but also to create an over-seas system which would meet theneeds of the post-war world. Fromthe growth of traffic among thoseservices still operating, it was appar-ent that the future needs of the worldfor international telephone servicewould be many times greater thanthey have ever been; that America phone equipments nor the land-linesystems; but it was a safe assumptionthat much had been or would besmashed to bits in the path of theretreating enemy. At about the time that the Germanswere retreating north of Rome andwere being forced back on the Rhine,a representative of Long Lines beganarrangements in London with the 24 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING governments of Norway, Belgium,and Holland, then in exile, for the re-sumption of the war-interrupted serv-ice to their countries. He also visitedRome and Paris, hardly yet cleared ofthe enemy, to lay the foundat

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