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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, today, hundreds of mil-gram. lions of dollars in Government con-The smoke and dust had not tracts await fulfillment. In referringyet cleared above Hawaii when to the vast scale on which Americanurgent war orders began pouring in. industry has joined the fight, Lieu-Needed at once were replacements tenant General Brehon Somervell. 1943 Alio Marocl 157 commanding the Army Service Forces,said, on March 10, 1943: Yourachievements are of such magnitudethat no single pair of eyes can seethem all at once, no single mind en-compasses all of them. Only a per-sonal visit to places of production cangive such production figures credibil-ity. To those who think of war work The manufacturing facilities aredivided into three establishments:the Hawthorne Works near Chicago,one in Kearny, N. J., and the PointBreeze Works at Baltimore, Md.,together with a number of associatedor satellite plants, whose locationsfor military reasons cannot be dis-closed. Together, they embrace 236acres of floor space.
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Western Electrics distributing houses, stocking some 10,000 different items of telephone supplies, use conveyors to speed the filling of telephone company orders, which in these days are often marked with a war-urgent rush in terms of rattling rivet guns andpounding drop hammers, however.Western Electric plants may seempeaceful, almost placid. They areplaces where precision work countsfor more than bulk and where em-ployees know that the failure of eventhe smallest part can mean the differ-ence between victory and defeat in amilitary operation. Kearnys War Story The Kearny Works concentrateson war apparatus comprised of manysmall parts—sometimes as many as60,000 in a single unit of equipment.The parts are formed by stamping,welding, soldering, molding. Thenmen and women war workers, likeexperts solving complex jig-saw puz- 158 Bell Telephone Magazine SEPTEMBER zles, fit the parts together to makejacks, keys, resistances, relays, load-ing coils, filters, networks, lamp sock-ets, cond

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