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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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the line. Cryptic initials A. S. A. P. (foras soon as possible) give a staccatotouch to many telephone companyorders for W. E. material. On cor-responding Western Electric invoices,the notation shipped same day re-curs with gratifying frequency. Onspecific defense orders, normal engi-neer, furnish and install scheduleshave been telescoped. Cable reelsmay roll into army camps when theyre little more than a stack ofblue-prints in a contractors shack.Private branch exchanges are oftencut into service while the big bull-dozers are still making molehills outof mountains, clearing the ground forUncle Sams military cities. By thetime a camp crackles with its firstbursts of practice rifle fire, an entiretelephone system will have been in-stalled, and telephones are ringing inheadquarters offices. Production Quantities Are Vast Western Electrics finger on thepulse of the defense situation is theprogram planning group at head-quarters. Twice monthly the groupissues a detailed report of progress
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This Is a Flier-Stranuer At the rate of 600 feet a minute, 101 separate pairs of wires are drawn from spools throughthe drilled plate and stranded together—one step in the manufacture of telephone cable 120 Bell Telephone Magazine AUGUST along the communications front, to-gether with carefully considered esti-mates of future requirements. Howmany telephones are needed in thebuilding of a two-ocean navy, an armyof a million and a half, an air forcesecond to none? How much cable?How many PBXs? These reportschart the rapidity with which WesternElectrics production, delivery, andequipment installation schedules mustbe revised in step with the fast ex-panding defense program. Last Oc-tober some 153 army, navy, and otherdefense establishments were projectedor a-building. By December 136more had been added. In Februarythe total reached 777. Today thenumber is approaching 1,100. Tonearly all of these army camps, navy yards, airfields, arsenals, anti-aircraftfiring centers, etc., Western Ele

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