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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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ss. Here is oneof the reasons why ample margins ofspare facilities are essential. Here isanother reason why the enormous re-cent increase in the use of the tele-phone, brought about by the continu-ous acceleration of the defense pro-gram, is causing serious problems forthe telephone company. Ijet us compare the countrys over-all use of the telephone today with the situation two years ago, before theoutbreak of war in September, 1939. At that time the Bell System hadabout 16,200,000 telephones in serviceand people were using them about 72,-000,000 times a day. Now there aresome 18,500,000 Bell telephones inservice and they are being used about81,000,000 times a day. In two yearsthe number of telephones has in-creased more than 2,000,000 and theaverage number of conversations eachbusiness day has jumped 9,000,000. These increases are enormous.There has never been anything likethem before. The increase in the de-mand for toll service, considered sepa-rately, is even more spectacular. The
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Up It Goes! This new Long Lines cable will provide additional circuits in the important Middle Atlantic industrial area 202 Bell Telephone Magazine NOVEMBER number of toll and long distance callsfor the first six months of 1941 wasabout 15 per cent greater than forthe corresponding period last year,and the increase in the number oflonger haul calls was about 27.5 percent. Comparing the first six monthsof 1941 with the first six months of1939, we find an increase of 22 percent in all toll calls and an increase of41 per cent in the longer haul calls. When war broke out in Europe inSeptember, 1939, there was a suddenunprecedented surge of long distancecalls—a sort of nine days wonderduring which all records for trafficover the longer distances were broken.Now, two years later, we are handlingmore of these calls every business daythan in those September days of 1939.What was astonishing then has be-come commonplace today. Why has all this happened? Thefact that industry is expanding tre

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