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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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o muchplanning and so much construction areneeded to give the service representedby each dollar of annual revenue,these successive upward jumps com-plicate the job. Given one set of con-ditions, we go to work to meet them.But soon the conditions are changed,and it appears that something more isgoing to be needed to meet the revisedsituation. This means not only thatour original program will fall short,but that some of the time needed toplan a bigger program against somefuture date has been lost. In short, if it had been known byanybody a year or more ago that thiscountry was going to organize its de-fenses on the scale on which it nowseems to be organizing them, the tele-phone companys present problemswould be much simpler than they are. As it is, the repeated acceleration ofthe defense program has handicappedthe telephone builders in their racewith telephone users. Recently, us-age has been outrunning the growth offacilities. The builders head start, i9 4 1 Telephones and Defense 203
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Bed for a CableThe men are measuring the depth of an excavation in which a new telephone cable will be laid under the Platte River in the form of spare plant margins,has been largely used up. Today, inmany places, its a neck and neck race.This isnt true in all parts of thecountry, nor of all the types of servicewe render. It is most true of tollservice over the longer routes, andbetween points where there are par-ticularly heavy concentrations of de-fense effort. Also, while some of theroutes experiencing unlimited emer-gency traffic are main trunk lines,others are spur lines that have neverbeen called upon before to bear anyvery heavy load. Military canton-ments and bases have mushroomed informer corn fields. So have dozens ofgreat industrial plants. The two typesof establishments together have givenAmerica something like 100 brand-new medium-sized cities, for many ofwhich communications facilities mustbe built practically from the groundup. And there are more coming. To give service

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