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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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im-portance of dependable communica-tions. In Toledo, emergency procedureshad been worked out during regularmonthly meetings of the DisasterCommittee. Auxiliary generatingunits existed in all main exchanges,and nine portable generators of vari-ous capacities were on hand in dis-persed locations. All units weretested and run weekly, and peoplewere trained in their use. These andmany otlier actions made our plantcapable of continuing to give serviceduring the power failure. But, when all is said and done,these preparations alone would nothave kept the service functioning.People were needed to direct and usethis equipment. In the Toledo case, five central of-fice foremen and a chief operator,representing 192 years of telephoneknowledge and experience, were thekey people. They knew what to do,they knew how to do it, and knewthey liad the authority to do it.True, hours and hours of laboriousplanning and effort to provide themwith needed equipment stood behind P9S3 The Service in Toledo III
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These six supervisory people have a total telephone experience of ig2 years: Ce)itralOffice Foremen Walter Hettle and Charles Ragen and Chief Operator fiine Mangold them, but in the emergency they As one plant man put it, Every- acted—they used the equipment on thing didnt worlc perfectly, we hand to see to it that the telephone hadnt foreseen all the situations, did work. Their experience and ca- but it certainly shows we are on the pacities, like their colleagues all right track; and, what is important, over the Bell System, are an unvalu- the service in Toledo did not break able asset available in any emergency, down. The Spice of Life (From the London Times) The telephone directory is generallyconsidered to be a pretty unexcitingpublication. It is true that its growingbulk reminds the possessor of a tele-phone of the startling fact that he canbe rung up by more than five and a halfmillion other subscribers in this countryalone. Yet, on the whole, the neatlyprinted columns, the s

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