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Identifier: belltelephonemag22amerrich (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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d num-bers of calls. Then it becomes neces-sary to transfer operators from otherlocalities where the employment prob-lem is not so acute. These operators,brought in some times from a con-siderable distance, must be housed— 1943 Operating Army Switchboards 121 in a community perhaps already over-crowded. In some places the tele-phone companies have rented orbought large houses and convertedthem into dormitories. When the telephone company isrequested to operate the same mili-tary establishments own privatebranch exchange, which handles theArmys local and long distance callsthrough the central office and all thecalls on the post as well, that just in- dormitory must be furnishedthem on the camp grounds. foi Now TO GET BACK to some of theinteresting points about actual tele-phone company operation of Armyswitchboards. These switchboards, operating 24hours a day, are the nerve centers ofthe Army. They handle a large vol-ume of calls. By way of example,more than 50,000 local and 600 long
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The telephone companies provide dining service, In cheery dining rooms such asthis, in a few of the operators dormitories at camps where it would be difficult for them to obtain meals elsewhere creases again the number of operatorsneeded. If, as in the preceding para-graph, the near-by town cannot pro-vide them, then they too must bebrought in from some other place.If the camp is far from town, ortransportation is too difficult, then a distance calls originate dailv at onelarge Army camp switchboard. Mostof the calls are concerned with Arrnybusiness, of course; but an occasionalincoming personal call to a soldierfrom mother, dad, or the best girl,which is handled through the private 122 Bell Telephone Magazine JUNE branch exchange instead of a publictelephone, is also important. Another typical Army camp hasmore than 1700 buildings encom-passed in a 6-square-mile area, whichfrom the air looks like a good sizedtown. This camp is served by a1000-line dial private branch ex-change with f

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