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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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d more than 10,500 veteransof World War II who had not pre-viously worked for the Bell Systemwere hired. This happy process iscontinuing. 302 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER Newcomers to the business are stall telephones anywhere in its ter-teamed with experienced employees ritory. There are 60 members ofand sent out on the job, to do while this group, almost all of them newlearning as well as to learn while telephone men recently released fromdoing so as to get on with the work the Armed Porces. They are madeas rapidly as possible, in many in- up into five squads, ready to go tostances, employees who formerly were work installing service for those oninstallers have been transferred to the waiting list the minute the equip-that work temporarily from other ment situation makes it productiveless pressing assignments. for them to move into an area. Several companies have been using In another area, high school boys groups of less experienced installers have been trained in certain instal-
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Members or A specially organized flying squadron ot installers receive instruc-tions before moving into an area where equipment is now available to serve those on the waiting list to pre-wire premises of applicantswho were scheduled to get new tele-phones as soon as a shipment of themwas received from Western Electricor when additions to the equipment incentral offices were about completed.Usually pre-wiring includes all ofof the work required on a customerspremises except the installation of atelephone set. At least one company used sucha group as a flying squadron to in- lation procedures, and are sent outin taxicabs during their free hoursto help pre-wire customers premises.By such expedients as these, as wellas by the more usual methods, theAssociated Companies have built upthe rate of installation to keep pacewith Western Electrics productionof telephones. Applications heldinitiallv for lack of telephones onlyhave been practically eliminated; theSystem companies are receiving tel

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