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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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re 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,with the prospective rapid drop inthe construction and manufacturingprogram, materials in process wouldsoon cease to provide an adequatesource from which to meet possibledemands for war emergency mate-rial, and that some special meansmust be set up to provide a poolwhich could be drawn on in the eventof destruction of telephone plant asa result of war. suit, it has been found possible to pro-vide about two-thirds of the totalstocks, in terms of dollar value, bythe use of salvaged plant recondi-tioned as necessary. In view of the unusual purpose ofthe war emergency stock—solely toprovide a form of insurance againstenemy action which might take placeanywhere in the System, and to havea common integrated pool of cableand equipment which can be thrown
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Ready for immediate shipment by truck or rail: part of the 300,000 feet of usedlead-sheathed telephone cable, inspected and tested, which is stored at locations in various parts of the country After discussions between staffmembers at A. T. and T. headquar-ters and a number of the AssociatedCompanies, it was decided to set upa war emergency stock of exchangeunderground cable and of varioustypes of central office equipmentamounting in total to about $3,000,-000. Because of the critical mate-rial and manufacturing situation,every effort was made to obtain thesestocks from used materials. As a re- into the breach wherever it may berequired—the decision was reachedto have the American Telephone andTelegraph Company purchase andown these materials, but to distributethem strategically throughout thecountry at locations which wouldmake them available to all with mini-mum delay in the event of need. The broad outline of the plan fora war emergency stock which the BellSystem proposed was con

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