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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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ommunications back to nor-mal for their neighbors. How could these employees con-tinue to function when tragedy hitat them so directly? Almost withoutexception each expressed a thank-fulness that their loved ones weresafe and said they felt a sense ofobligation to help do the thing theywere best qualified at doing to helpreduce the suffering of others. Telephone Pioneer Chaptersacross the country set up a specialdisaster relief fund to aid telephoneemployees who were victims of thefloods. In addition, Western Elec-tric, through its WE Fund, respond-ed immediately to the flood disasterby donating funds totaling $105,-000 to over a dozen Red Cross Cen-ters in Washington-Virginia, Balti-more, Pennsylvania and upper NewYork State. Yes, June, 1972, will long five inthe memories of telephone peopleas a disaster month almost withoutequal. And for those who had a di-rect and personal role to play, it wasa time to see at first-hand Bell Sys-tem teamwork in action ... a trulyinspiring sight. 26
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MAKING THE MOST OF THE MACHINE A report on thegrowing role ofcomputers(and those whocare for andfeed them) inengineeringthe worldsbiggest, mostcomplex andcontemporarybusinessenterprise. Some years ago, when AT&Tsshare owner records were first beingcommitted to computer form, onelarge machine room at Varick Streetin New York had a small, glass-doored box attached prominently toa central pillar. Next to its littlechained hammer was the instruc-tion: IN CASE OF EMERGENCYBREAK GLASS. Inside the box wasan abacus. Such touches of wry humor oc-casionally surface among the fra-ternity who program, operate anduse the output of that ubiquitoushandmaiden of science and indus-try, the digital computer and its nu-merous progeny. The humor doesnot derive from any fear that themachine is likely to go beserk orsimply break down; it is merely areminder, from its operators to them-selves, that they are in charge, andthat the intelligence that wouldmake the most of the machineshould match, in its ow

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