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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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of this work be-came formalized in a section of thecommercial department. A staff wasassembled, some of the men bor-rowed from Associated Companies,all selected for their knowledge ofsubscriber telephone layouts and spe-cial equipment. The weekly reports of this servic-ing force tell in telegraphic style avivid story— 1943 How Washingtoris Telephones Went to War 6i 3-14. Section organized todaywith 70 people. Initialinstallation 16 lines, 43 ex-tensions. Section expectedto grow to 600 people by5-15, according to theChief. 3-28. Inter-American DefenseBoard, new agency or-ganized this week. Ulti-mate growth 17 units. that this PBX serves 14 of 23 waragencies, each divided into bureaus,divisions, sections and units. Inseven months the Companys repre-sentatives studied the telephone ar-rangements of 2,000 units and re-studied more than 400. In addition,they received and acted upon 4,900demand requests for assistance inplanning moves, rearrangements, oradditions of station facilities. \
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Last December these accounting girls billed 607,000 toll tickets—a quarterof a million of them for calls made by Uncle Sam 4-18. Floor plans reviewed.Recommendations incor-porate all plans. 1500telephones involved inmove. 7-25. O.W.I, expected to require550 branches on office re-arrangements and new lay-outs being reviewed. Some insight into the scope of theseactivities comes with the knowledge Rapid expansion brought into theGovernment service many new peoplewith little experience in office pro-cedures. Early in 1941 it becameapparent that the company could, outof its experience, be helpful in teach-ing telephone habits which, by savingof time, tempers, and telephone fa-cilities would help get on with thewar. A training course was mappedout and a faculty of seven womenhas so far given classroom instruction 62 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY to more than 40,000 governmentworkers of 39 bureaus on how to usethe telephone more effectively. Thetraining is continuing at the rate ofabout

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