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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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ation, mate-rials derived from these varioussources, wherever they may be in theBell System, form a pool which canbe drawn on as necessary to meet acrisis anywhere. Experience over theyears has amply demonstrated theSystems ability to cope with the mostsevere peace-time emergency needs. In war-time, the picture changes.Stocks of materials are shrunk, in War Emergency Stocks in The Bell System 179 keeping with the lesser requirementsof a sharply reduced construction pro-gram and the necessity to conservecritical materials. For example,measured in terms of the materialsrequired, the programs of additionsto exchange cable and central officesin 1943 will each be only about 5 per-cent of the 1941 programs. Corre- categories of materials the normalpeace-time reserves are no longeravailable to meet emergency require-ments. In time of war, communicationscompanies have to be ready to repairdamage not only from the attacks ofthe elements but also possible attacksfrom other sources: sabotage and
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LEGEND \ Manual Central Office EquipmentDial Central Office EquipmentToll Central Office EquipmentLead Covered Cable Stocks of cables and central office equipment are held at strategic locations spondingly, the amounts in the cen-tral stocks, the volume of materialsdelivered to the field awaiting instal-lation, and the volume in process ofmanufacture have undergone sharpreductions. Instead of manufactur-ing equipment for the Bell System,the Western Electric Company hasturned largely to the production ofwar materials.* In short, for many * See Alio Maroc! page 149. enemy action. Again, materials arerequired, but materials of a differentcharacter. The Battle of Britain demon-strated that central office equipmentand large-size underground cables,which are not likely to meet withconcentrated heavy damage duringpeace-time, are the very types of tele-phone plant most likely to suffer un-der bombing attack. It became ap- i8o Bell Telephone Magazine SEPTEMBER parent in the spring of 1942 that

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