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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (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 ideal and aim of theAmerican Telephone andTelegraph Company andits Associated Companiesis a telephone service for thenation, free, so far ashumanly possible, fromimperfections, errors, ordelays, and enabling any-one anywhere to pick up atelephone and talk to any-one else anywhere else,clearly, quickly and at areasonable cost. VOL. XXI AUGUST, 1942 NO. 3 War-Time in the Traffic Departments 141 Raymond A. Steelman Doing a Bigger Job—with Less,Alvin von Auw 161 The Organization of Large-Scale Engineering Work 170 Mark A. Sullivan Protecting the Service against Fire,Irvin M. Cup ill Telephone Statistics of the World.Knud Pick 111 192 For the Record 200 In the Armed Services—W. II. Harrison Made aBrfgadier-General Contributors to This Issue 201 ^5^= Published for the Bell System by the Information Department of American Telephone and Telegraph Company 195 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
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SANDBAGGING AN INCENDIARY BOMB This picture, taken in a Bell System building,shows a practice bomb, but illustrates the methodof controlling the blaze by throwing bagged sand onand around it. See Protecting the Service AgainstFire, page 177 WAR-TIME IN THE TRAFFIC DEPARTMENTS Many Problems Confront the Bell Systems Operating Forces in Their Task of Furnishing a Service Which Is Essential to the Prosecution of the War and the Daily Life of the Country By RAYMOND A. STEELMAN B EFORE the hordes of Nazi Ger-many invaded Poland in Sep-tember 1939, the telephonecentral office at Mount Holly, a quiettown in the farming section of centralNew Jersey, was averaging about1,000 long distance and 3,300 localcalls a day. Now, with the nation all-out to win the war, the Mount Hollyexchange, which serves nearby FortDix, is averaging 5,800 long distanceand 5,400 local calls a day, increasesof 480 and 64 per cent. Then theoperating force consisted of 15 people;now there are 167. This is not an isolated

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