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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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— slam spring-loaded blast valves shut to sealthe building. During the emergency, auxiliary facili-ties provide v^/ater, power and ventilation. Beds, food,toilet articles, cooking facilities, refrigeration andeverything necessary to carry on for three weeks isstored in the center. But day in and day out, working in the giganticunderground building will be no different than thethousands of other telephone switching centersacross the country. The building contains stand-byemergency power control units, battery equipment,telephone transmission units, administrative offices,ventilating and air conditioning facilities, mainte-nance and storage areas, and training rooms. An average size junction center like Monticellowill have about as much central office equipment asthat which is required to serve a community of about100,000 people. Although the buildings will notinitially be filled to capacity, ultimately about 2,000tons of equipment will be installed by the WesternElectric Company. ■
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Nearly completed communications center at Monticello, Ca. will be covered with four feet of earth, a grass-sodded roof and a black-topped parking area. Measuring roughly 150 by 200 feet, the structure is equivalent in height to a two and one-half story building. 27 Though some are being attempted, most cultural programs on commercial TV are n<t Wasteland Re-visited By Peter Benchley TV Editor, Newsweek Magazine Editors Note: The current television season arrived amidst muchta/k about cultural programming. New shows were developedand some old ones changed, among them The Bell TelephoneHour. To get a critics appraisal ol the season thus far, we turnedto Peter Benchley, TV editor of Newsweek. Mr. Benchley, a 7961graduate of Harvard University, is the author of two books and hascontributed articles to such magazines as Holiday, the NewYorker, Vogue, Diplomat and TV Guide. Before it actually came into being, the 1966-67 televi-sion season was a press agents dream. For the firsttime in r

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