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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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first try to find pur-chasers within the Bell System. Ifthere are no bids from the System,they find outside purchasers. Thismethod of procedure sounds simpleenough. The execution of it, how-ever, demands highly specializedknowledge and resourcefulness. Toward Maximum UseAs THE Bell Systems team of ex-perts in conservation, Nassau sees acontinuing and increasing challenge in the days ahead. To them the de-pletion of our nations mineral re-sources places new emphasis on thenecessity for eflicient salvage proced-ure. They see themselves as an ele-ment in the national program to con-serve the materials so vital to oureconomy. More specifically, the menand women at Nassau recognize theirresponsibility in speeding rebornraw materials into telephone produc-tion. Nassau is constantly devisingnew techniques and improving meth-ods for extracting the last bit of valuefrom Bell System scrap and for chan-neling urgently needed metals backinto service in the shortest time andwith a minimum of loss.
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Reclaimed, refined, and molded into wire bars, copper by the ton atNassau awaits shipment to Western Electric, where it will he draiv)i into copper wire Commercial Broadcasting Pioneer: TheJVEAF Experiment, 1922-1926 A Book Review WEAF IS NO MORE. The call letterswhich for nearly a quarter of a cen-tury designated a radio broadcastingstation famous for its pioneeringachievements ceased last Novemberto have meaning. WNBC is thename now. But even as the old namegoes down into history, we have to-day an excellent record of the yearswhen the station was the experimen-tal radio broadcasting medium of theAmerican Telephone and TelegraphCompany. This is the newly published Com-mercial Broadcasting Pioneer: theWEAF Experiment, 1922-1926,by William Peck. Banning. In thisfine work of research and interpreta-tion, the author has not onlv set forth the facts about the A. T. and T.Companys creation and operation ofWEAF, but he has so displayed themagainst the contemporary scene thattheir social an

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