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Identifier: bellvol24telephonemag00amerrich (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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render an es-sential service. At the same time,they will contribute to the over-allnational welfare and prosperity. 1945 Looking Ahead in the Bell System 17 These are projects wisely conceivedand fully justified and in a strict busi-ness sense are capable of providing areturn on the capital investment. The projected program wouldmean within the Bell System jobs ona large scale. The full impact wouldbe felt immediately in the factories,where the equipment is manufac-tured, and in the construction forcesthat build and install the plant. Forthese functions alone it is estimated where the finished materials areforged, in the transportation systemsover which the materials and equip-ments are shipped—in fact, the ef-fects would be felt throughout thenational industrial structure. Itmight be interesting to estimate thenumber of jobs required for all thesepurposes, but such an estimate wouldinvolve so many variables that it isperhaps more prudent merely tounderscore, as may safely be done,
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Radio telephone serviceto motor vehicles, as il-lustrated in this sketch,would operate as follows:The customer (i) askstor mobile service, hiscall going through thelocal telephone centraloffice (2) to the controlterminal (3), where aspecial operator signalsthe desired vehicle (4) byradio. When the driveranswers, his voice travelsby radio to the nearestreceiver (5) and by tele-phone wire to the controlterminal (3) and the localcentral office (2) to thecustomers telephone (i) that the program at its peak wouldprovide jobs for 70,000 employeesover and above the number now en-gaged in this work. Then more jobs would be requiredin the forces that maintain and oper-ate the plant after it is in service.And behind the jobs within the BellSystem, there would be many in-volved outside the Bell System—inthe mines and forests from which theraw materials come, in the foundries that the projected program in totalmeans jobs on a vast scale. The program could be temporizedin part by resorting to ex

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