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Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (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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Telephone Operator These illustrations are from a booklet entitled An Invita-tion from the Telephone Company which is distributedwidely among prospective applicants Service Representative
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ening. When Japansurrendered, the BellSystem was holdinghundreds of thousandsof orders for tele-phones, which, becauseof war shortages, ithad been unable to fill.Soon after V-J Day,new telephones werebeing installed in anorderly rush. But theend of the war didntbring a slackening ofdemands. Rather, theorders began to comein faster than ever,and the calling ratewent up. So did theusage of long distance.So more employees—many more—were re-quired to handle anunprecedented growthwhich the Bell Systemwas experiencing. That wasnt all.Because of the war,many of the employeesof the telephone com-panies, along withthose in other indus-tries, were workingovertime. The prob-lem here was to getback to a five-dayweek, and that too re-quired many addi-tional employees. Finally, force losseshad to be reckonedwith. With so manythousands of employ-ees, substantial num-bers of resignationsare inevitable. They 1946 Hiring a garter of a Million Women n^ are, of course, running at a higherrate in the

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