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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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lly alive to the necessity of balanc-ing these requirements against othervital material requirements for otherwar purposes. Pearl Harbor—and After 1 HE attack on Pearl Harbor had theforce of an explosion within the Sys-tem. From the first news I had thatbleak Sunday afternoon until thesmall hours of the next morning, I was on the telephone almost continu-ously. Mr. Gifford and hundreds ofexecutives and administrative officialsof the System had similar experiences.The Government—especially Armyand Navy officials—discussed with usmany urgent features of our opera-tions. Local and long distance traffic onthe West Coast jumped tremendously.The toll traffic all over the country,particularly over the transcontinentalroutes and into and out of Washing-ton, soared to new and all-time highs.The army of telephone workers hadonly to know that they were needed.Telephone operators rushed to centraloffices to man the switchboards. Plantforces jumped into action. The BellSystem was in the war!
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For Sailors TooShore leave, or Us equivalent at a training station, gels ojj to a good start when calls may be made from an attended station such as this 220 Bell Telephone Magazine NOVEMBER The first call I received that Sun-day afternoon was a request that allcalls in and out of FBI offices through-out the United States be given prece-dence. That message was flashed im-mediately .by our headquarters to allof the operating units of the Bell Sys-tem, in order that the fastest possibleservice might be given to this impor-tant agency of the Government. Ad-vance plans made it possible for Navycensors to move in on overseas circuitswithin a few hours. In the city of Washington and else-where, major feats were performed inmeeting the emergency. In the tolloperating room in Washington stoodsome 30 positions of toll switchboardon which the wiring had been onlypartially completed. Plant forces ofthe W^estern Electric Company and ofthe Chesapeake and Potomac Com-pany put these boards into oper

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