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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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there were the first to getup at all hours to see the soldiers offwith gifts of cigarettes, gum, candy,peanuts, and the more practical giftsof shaving cream and lotion, not tomention stamps; and the local draft 46 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY board, the local newspaper, and thebroadcasting station have all givenvoice to an expression of apprecia-tion which is felt by the whole com-munity. Each girl on the committeetakes her turn at helping the chair-man, and each carries a tray deco-rated in the colors of that particularBell telephone company. The girls in a southern central of-fice held a victory party, and from Its employees who had volunteered to ;serve half a day each week at the ^switchboard at Red Cross headquar-ters. The letter read in part: Iwould like to express the apprecia-tion of the American Red CrossBlood Donor Service to the youngladles employed by your companywho volunteered half of their freeday each week to service our switch-board . . . You will be interested to
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These girls spent a good many hours helping the local Civilian Defense or-ganization, after their regular tours of duty the proceeds sent a draft for $253.00to General MacArthur In Australiato provide candy, cigarettes, andother articles for the boys in hospitalsthere. In addition, two wheel chairswere bought for an Army hospital. Volunteers on the Home Front The chairman of one citys RedCross Volunteer Blood Service re-cently sent a letter to the telephonecompany to express appreciation to know that your employees have ren-dered between 600 and 650 hoursof service for which we are grate-ful. . . . What is more, many hundreds oftelephone women all over the coun-try have donated blood to the RedCross blood bank and In some casesthey have given affairs to raise moneyfor the expenses of the bank. Recently, one of the governmentalagencies In a large city had a rush job 1943 Telephone Women s War-Time Of-duty Activities 47 requiring a large amount of clericalwork in connection with fuel oi

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