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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (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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Stanley BrackenPresident, Western Electric Company Stanley Brackens fortieth service an-niversary was a recent event. His en-tire career has been spent with theWestern Electric Company, of whichhe has been President since 1947, andit is another illustration of how broadsuch experience may be. For he beganas a student engineer at the HawthorneWorks in Chicago, and his steadyprogress brought him such assignments as three years in Japan as consultantfor Sumito Electric Wire and CableWorks, and the presidency of TeletypeCorporation. His election as Execu-tive Vice President of W. E. pre-ceded by only a few months his electionto his present office. He heads a cor-poration having more than go,ooo em-ployees and plants in a dozen cities.Its greatly expanded activities now in-clude production of much importantmaterial for the Armed Forces.
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Fred R. Kappel / ice President, Operation and Engineering, A. T. ^ T. Co. From the ground up accurately describes Fred R. Kappels course in theBell System. He started as a groundman with the Northwestern Bell Tele-phone Company in 1924, and held a dozen positions in the Plant, Engineering,and Commercial Departments in several States before he reached Companyheadquarters in Omaha. There he became in turn plant operations super-visor, assistant vice president—operations, and, for half a dozen years through1948, Vice President in Charge of Operations. He went to New York in1949 as assistant vice president in A. T. & T.s Department of Operation andEngineering, and in that same year became successively Vice President incharge of Long Lines and Vice President in charge of the O. & E. Depart-ment. Comprising the Plant, Traffic, Commercial, and Engineering Divisions,the O. & E. is the A. T. and T. Companys largest department. 80

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