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Identifier: belltvol20elephonemag00amerrich (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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menassigned to help the Army during ma-neuvers designed a system wherebyteletypewriters could be made to op-erate over field wire laid on theground, with its insulation wet fromconstant rain. Less obvious, but no less important,was some specialized training for theArmy. Faced with all their new andenlarged camps needing communica-tions service, and with a sudden addi-tion of hundreds of new men to theSignal Corps, the Army last year fore-handedly started expanding the groupof instructors who are now teachingthe new Signal Corps men their jobs.The communications companies wereasked to help in certain phases, and alllast fall the Southwestern Bell con-ducted classes in teletype operation,PBX maintenance, station installa-tion, and central office work. In anumber of camps, experienced opera-tors have been assigned to teach sol-diers how to operate switchboards. Service during Maneuvers 1 HE maneuvers mentioned earlierare an entirely different phase of the i9Ui Telephones and Defense 191
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Right at Home The Post Signal Officer, going over plans for the switchboard at Camp Funston with WesternElectric installers, was a facilities engineer with the Southwestern Bell Company until he donned khaki telephone companys defense job.They involve many of the regular de-fense activity problems, such as rushorders for major construction, butthey also add a few of their own. In the last year there have beenthree maneuvers in Southwestern ter-ritory: one in East Texas last fall, aSecond Army action in Arkansas thisAugust, and Third Army maneuversthat started in West Texas the firstpart of August, and then moved toSoutheast Texas and Louisiana thelatter part of the month. These lasttwo were preliminaries to joint ma-neuvers, largely in Southern Bell ter-ritory, during which the Second Armydefended against the invading Third. Both for tactical reasons and toavoid disrupting civilian life as much as possible, the Armies chose the mostsparsely-settled sections of the areasfor their pract

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