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Identifier: belltvol20elephonemag00amerrich (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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sive view of the countrys defenseprogram. And it would gain in in-terest for System people because ateach point visited there would be—either actually or figuratively—tele-phone men at work. The Bell Systems capacity for thisand other defense work was the themeof a radio broadcast by PresidentGifford, and of an advertisement inmagazines of nation-wide circulation,a few months ago. Current advertise-ments include the statement, TheBell System is doing its part in thecountrys program of national de-fense. Such pledges are, neces-sarily, generalizations. To the ques-tion of what the Systems part is_ andhow it is doing it, there are, in detail,many answers. Of these that pin-studded map is a partial summary. A CITY of 40,000 or 50,000 is a siz-able community. Such a place repre-sents many years of growth. It hasa history, traditions, an individuality.Among the many services which havegrown with it through the years isthat of the telephone. Yet todaycities of that size are being built.
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constructed from the ground up, inthe course of a few months, at a num-ber of locations in the United States:Army camps for the young Americanswho are to receive a year of militarytraining, for members of the NationalGuard who have already been calledout by Presidential order. And forthose cities telephone service mustbe provided—likewise, in many cases,from the ground up. Smaller camps—and there are many—present thesame problem in scale. Government-owned munitions and aviation plantsmust have service too. So must theFederal housing projects which areplanned or going up near many of thecantonments and factories. As President Gifford pointed out,the Bell System is able to providethat service, and the necessary equip-ment, through systematic planning,ample stocks and manufacturing ca- The Captain Goes Up The Post Signal Officer of a huge Army camp examines the fine points of a splice in an Army cable just completed by the Bell System men on the ground pacity, skilled and loyal men

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