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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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e basis of about one for every10,000 men. System average isabout five public telephones per 1,000men, in the larger establishments. Should the reader find that theseformulas have not been applied to alocation with which he is familiar,he will probably discover some spe-cial circumstance responsible, as forexample, where much of the popula-tion of the establishment lives awayfrom the grounds or is free to leavethe grounds on completion of thedays responsibilities. In the BellSystem, there are now about 100camp managers on the job, and over100 attended locations have been es-tablished. As this article is written,the Telephone Companies are push-ing forward their plans for more 44 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING public telephones, more attendedcenters, and more camp managers tokeep pace with the growth of thearmed services. The camp manager is the key manon whom depends the ability of ourCompanies to plan adequately, andin advance, for the telephone needsand comfort of our service men and
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Sailors are likely to find telephones waiting for the)it 0)1 or beside the dock when they come ashore women. Moreover, he is usually re-sponsible for the provision of ade-quate administrative service for of-ficial military use. He constantlystudies the telephone service require-ments of the camp and negotiates forthe buildings to house our attendedcenters. Since some military establishmentsare as large as a city, and their popu-lation as highly transient as a metrop-olis, the job of directing John Q.to the nearest attended center orpublic telephone is one that deservesand gets considerable attention. Maps of the area, showing publictelephone locations, are often dis-played on bulletin boards and atother vantage points. Signs, largeand small, standard or hand-made tosuit the need, are spotted and spot-lighted advantageously throughoutthe area. And each big sign locationand power outlet needs clearancewith the Post Signal Officer andEngineer. In many of Uncle Sams perma-nent installatio

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