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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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in anindependent worldwide network op-erated by the Army Airways Com-munications System for the controlof planes flying the air transportroutes. Air Forces used radio tele-type for the coordination of long-range bombing missions from widelyseparated bases. A channel betweenWashington and Moscow gave thesenerve centers dependable communica-tion for both diplomatic and militarytraffic. And still demands for addi-tional circuits arose daily. An Important Contributionto the War Effort ^,.g :* Only the collapse of Japan broughtthis expansion to an end. Thenreconversion began. Multi-channelequipment no longer needed overseaswas installed in the Army stations at 114 Bell Telephone Magazi?ie SUMMER Contrasts: The City Hallin Manila (left). Afterheavy shelling during therecapture of the city, it be-came the Americayi Head-quarters and message cen-ter. The buildi)ig frontingon the palace moat inTokyo (below) is now theHeadquarters and messagecenter of the Supreme Com-mander for the AlliedPowers
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1946 Command Circuits 115 Washington and San Francisco to op- In a presidential citation which ac-erate with occupation forces and per- companied the award of the Medalmanent bases. The Long Lines facil- for Merit to President Walter S. Gif-ities were released, and were quickly ford of A. T. & T., radio teletypereturned to their post-war task of was given a prominent place as onefurnishing overseas telephone serv- of the Bell Systems most importantice. They were to be kept busy for contributions to the war effort. Itsmany months to come, carrying calls development had enabled the Signalbetween thousands of lonely service- Corps, during the most difficult pe-men overseas and their folks at riod in its history, to live up to twohome.* important slogans : Get the Message Through, and Security, Accuracy, * See Three-Minute Furloughs, Magazine, j r j m Spring 1946. and Speed. The scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories . . .were handed the job of focussing radio micro-waves into

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