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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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Federal Government in1789. After many years under theTreasury Department, the LighthouseService was placed under the jurisdic-tion of the newly created Departmentof Commerce and Labor in 1903. The inception of the Bureau ofMarine Inspection and Navigation lay in an investigation of severalcostly marine disasters conducted bythe Treasury Department in 1824—although the first significant legisla-tion passed was the Steamboat Act of1852, which provided for the crea-tion of a board of nine supervisinginspectors to administer such marinesafety laws as were then in effect.This board evolved into the Steam-boat Inspection Service which, likethe Lighthouse Service, went underthe wing of the Department of Com-merce and Labor in 1903. The Coast Guards Many Tasks The United States Coast Guard,as such, was born in 1915 with themerger of the Revenue Cutter Serv-ice and the Life-Saving Service. In1939 the Lighthouse Service wasadded, and early in 1942 the Coast 2o8 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER
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Coast Guard to the rescue: R.A.F. fliers being removed from the Greenland ice cap Guard assumed a number of theduties of the former Bureau of Ma-rine Inspection and Navigation—amove due undoubtedly to the exigen-cies of war. Through these consolidations, theCoast Guard today has many variedtasks to perform for Uncle Sam. Its scope of activity ranges fromthe Bering Sea and Alaskan waters toGreenland and the North Atlantic.It includes all navigable territorialwaters and seacoasts of the UnitedStates, its territories and dependen-cies (except the Canal Zone) to-gether with its lakes and inland wa-terways. Its shore units form a co-ordinated network of protective andmarine observation stations along thecoasts of the United States, Hawaii,Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the VirginIslands. The normal activities of the CoastGuard are myriad. It enforces Fed- eral laws regarding smuggling, cus-toms, immigration, quarantine, oilpollution, navigation, and wildlifereservations, and patrols marine re-

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