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Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (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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ms, on papers of manydifferent sizes, weights, and colors,substitution only led to confusion andto the question of whether the substi-tutions offered by one bidder were theequal in quality of the substitutionsoffered by another. This difficultywas magnified by the fact that little definite data as to paper quality weregenerally available. A further complication developed inthe rapid increases in paper pricesduring the war period. The printercould not control the cost of paper tonearly the same extent to which hecould control the cost of his printingand binding, which were under hisown supervision. As paper priceswent up, the cost of the finished prod-uct went up also; and in order to savethe contractor from serious losses,price increases were granted whichmight or might not have been lessthan a competitor would have asked.The contracts, accordingly, lost muchof their advantage. It was evident that development ofa new procedure was necessary. The i9^t0 Standardizing Business Papers 141
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FOURDllLMEK MACHINES Paper starls as a thin solution of pulp and water at the wet end of these huge affairs, inIhf foreground, is screened, dried, pressed, and ironed on the way, and reaches the distant end as a finished product objective would be to establish a rangeof standard papers of suitable qualityfor all requirements. These wouldthen be supplied to the printer at defi-nite prices, in order to relieve him ofthe burden of the paper problem asto both purchasing and quality. Un-der this plan, the printers, in submit-ting their bids for a telephone com-panys business paper requirements,would be concerned only with thoseelements of cost over which they ex-ercised control. Enter the A. T. & T. Engineers I 1 HE American Telephone and Tele-graph Company was asked to under-take this work, along with its otherstandardization activities.; At the time the A. T. and T. Com-iPany undertook standardization, in-j formation for consumer judgment ofEquality in business papers was indeed meag

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