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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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r in London.However, General Post Office officialssaid that they wanted to give allAmerican fighting men in Britain anequal opportunity; that the Britishpeople were grateful to them and anx-ious to accommodate them. They 1946 Three-Minute Furloughs 25 therefore willingly assumed this ad-ditional burden, and public telephoneservice between all of Great Britainand the United States became avail-able on June 23, 1945. The response of men and womenin uniform to this offering was im-mediate and heavy. Additional cir-cuits were quickly added betweenNew York and London, but bookings Club. The center fortunately ad-joined a pub, and it became the cus-tom for G.I.s to be paged at the pubwhen their calls were ready. In certain parts of Britain, it iscommon for public telephones to bemounted out of doors, as are fireboxes in this country. One sergeantplaced a call from one of these boxesand then took his blanket roll to the ran days in advance, A Long Lines box and slept beside it until his call
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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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