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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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The London-New York circuits were swamped at first traflic representative thereupon flewto London to work out, in coopera-tion with traffic experts there, proce-dures which would speed the flow ofmessages; and representatives of theGPO came to New York for the samepurpose. The GPO established a telephonecenter on Shaftesbury Avenue in Lon-don, near Picadilly Circus and thefamous Rainbow Corner Red Cross was completed. A number of soldierson leave on the Continent hitchhikedto Britain on Army planes to get in acall home. Some 9,000 calls a month werecompleted, most of them for men andwomen of the American services. When in Rome When the Allied Command tookover in Rome, it found the telephone 26 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING
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The Red Cross decorated the room in Rome where members of the American serv-ices waited for their calls back home to come through system of the city in a deplorablestate. Nobody could place a call withany certainty of completing it. Trans-mission was poor and cut-offs fre-quent. However, the Germans, in re-treating, had sent non-technical troopsto destroy the radio transmittingequipment. At the station they foundsome massive but obsolete long-wavetransmitters which they thoroughlydestroyed—fortunately leaving thesmaller, modern short-wave equip-ment virtually intact. At the direc-tion of the Allied Commission, andwith the assistance of the U. S. ArmySignal Corps, Italcable Company con-ditioned the equipment and estab-lished contact with the United States.Because the telephone system in Italy was in such poor shape, it wasdecided that overseas service for bothG.I.s and all other users in Italywould be confined to a single boothlocation near the Pincio Gardens inRome. Here, beginning

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