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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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ercities near militaryestablishments, thepublic telephone devel-opment In the centerof town will have beenreinforced to meettheir requirements. Having completedhis stateside training,John Q. now goes to a staging area.Here he is prepared to go overseas—and here particularly the tele-phone must serve well. That lastcall home, with brave words ofhope and good cheer despite theundertones of fear and heartbreak,must not go uncompleted because alltrunks are busy or because the clockruns out before John Qs ticket Isreached or his number called. Here, special efforts are made tobe sure that the service arrangementspreviously described are adequate tothe peak loads they are called on tohandle. Well stay open and keeptrying until the last call is completedor every possible effort has beenmade to get the call through. Todistribute the load over all availablefacilities, camp managers often willtake groups of service men, in busesprovided by the Telephone Com-pany for the purpose, to other cen-
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Portable telephones provide service for patients who are confined to bed ters in the camp. Where buses arenot used. Company cars or govern-ment vehicles are pressed Into serv-ice. The call must go through Isa motto to live by for our servicemen and the Bell people who servethem. When John Q. Comes Home Now lets assume that John Q. hascompleted his service overseas andIs about to return from Korea orEurope. Perhaps hes been relieved,will rest awhile at home, and thenreturn to camp for reassignment.Perhaps hes about to be honorablydischarged and the war Is ended forhim. Perhaps hes been hurt and Isreturning for hospitalization andconvalescense. No matter what thereason for his return, its odds onthat the first chance he gets, hellhead for a telephone to call home.Tf he comes through San Francisco 48 Bell Telephone Magazine or New York City, as its likely hewill if he comes in by ship, hell findpublic telephone facilities ready andwaiting for him in the reassignmentand displacement camp

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