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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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es into 1943 with morethan 460,000 telephones: five timesas many as it had on Armistice DayIn 1918. The Federal Governmentsubscribes for more than 100,000 ofthem, about two and a quarter timesthe number of three years ago. One Indication of what happenswhen Uncle Sam bestirs himself canbe found in the number of telephonesinstalled and disconnected. For the 1943 How Washingtons Telephones Went to War SZ year just ended, telephones connectedand disconnected in the District ofCohimbia were 38 per cent more thanthe total in service at the first of theyear. Kaiser Wilhelms note announcingunrestricted submarine warfare wasdelivered in Washington on Friday,February i, 1917. Toll calls that Toll calls out of Washington aver-aged 11,000 per business day in1939; 12,700 in 1940; 24,200 in thelast week of November 41. In thefateful week of Pearl Harbor theysoared to 32,400, an increase of one-third literally overnight. Since thenthe curve has continued upward. Atthis writing, a quiet business day
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This is one of the eleven telephone buildings which have been constructedor enlarged in Washington and the vicinity since the Japs struck in the Pacific day jumped 20 per cent, or 300 calls,and continued to climb week by weekto an average of 5,200 per businessday in October 1918. A chart in thecompany magazine of that time plotsthis rising curve of calls and thelegend beneath it reads in part:Could anything be more impres-sive? The editor could not foreseethe events of a quarter-century. brings 39,000 calls. Obviously, neither a peacetimeplant nor peacetime methods couldsatisfy demands for service of thisorder. It takes time to engineer andexpand a telephone system, thoughof late a good many traditions onthis score have crumbled. Stormsignals flying through 1939 gavewarnings which were heeded, and 54 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY plans started that year have servedthe nation and the business well.The comprehensiveness of these plansis only partially revealed by the sumof 458 major

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