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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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been unfilled be-cause of wartime shortages of facili-ties. Coupled with the day-to-day tasks of providing and improving the na-tions telephone service, this emerg-ency program is the Bell Systems firstorder of business. It will continueto be so until the last waiting customerhas been served and telephones foreveryone are once again being in-stalled promptly on request. Providing telephone service for allwho want it, when they want it, andthe way they want it is the normalresponsibility of the Bell System. TheSystem had met this obligation fullyand pridefully until the telephonewent to war. But in the years whenvictory was the first order of business,and telephone materials and equip-ment were needed by the ArmedForces, a huge backlog of unfilledorders piled up. With V-J Day,Bell people everywhere swung intoan emergency program to clear theseheld orders with all possible speed. And it is a real emergency—thegreatest in Bell System history—more 296 Bell Telephone Magazine 1 WINTER
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In many a Western Electric distributing house, old switchboard sections, removed from manual offices after dial conversion, are being reconditioned to go back into service in other manual offices to help relieve the equipment shortage extensive than any ever caused byflood, fire, wind, or sleet. Its nation-wide. Its fundamental. Its intri-cate, complicated, and tough to over-come. The peak in held applications formain telephone service, 2,170,000,was reached last September. At thattime more than 900,000 were heldinitially for instruments and the bal-ance of more than 1,200,000 for thelack of central office equipment andoutside plant. Since then, the volume of new or-ders has broken all records. On topof all those held orders, nearly2,000,000 nezv applications for maintelephones have been receiv^ed inthose five months—almost half ofthem in the first two months of thisyear—and there is no let-up today.Many of these new orders have been filled for customers who qualify forpreferred t

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