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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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ations were given at a number of \ panics and proceeded at once toteach the technique to the splicers.Within a brief six to eight weeks af-ter the new technique had been intro-duced, it was in daily use by morethan 5,000 splicers throughout theBell System, most of whom were 196 Bell Telephone Magazine SEPTEMBER highly skilled through years of ex-perience in making the rounded joint.The Victory joint will doubtlessbe continued in use after the emer-gency has passed. Many more examples could, ofcourse, be cited, but these illustratethe great variety of things that arebeing done to save materials, anddemonstrate that attention is being duction Board to those essential tothe war effort. In combination these ;conservation measures have reducedthe rate of use of copper from morethan 90,000 tons per year (the peakrate obtaining in 1941) to the pres-ent rate of about 6,000 tons. Use ofaluminum has been correspondinglyreduced from 1,200 tons to 25 tons,and of rubber from 2,100 tons to130 tons.
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The old sheath joint had a large Solder must be of exactly the rightcross-section of solder composition and temperature given to small savings as well as tolarge. All engineering and operatingpractices have been closely scrutin-ized, and every individual item ofequipment down to the smallestscrew has been carefully examined.Modernization programs, such asconversion of central offices frommanual to dial operation, have beendiscontinued. Plant additions sinceMarch, 1942, have, in general, beenrestricted by order of the War Pro- The situation surrounding the sup-ply of raw materials is shiftingrapidly. Substitutions are now beingmade for materials which themselveshad previously been used as substi-tutes, as is illustrated by the housingof the outdoor telephone set. Like-wise, other conservation measures arehaving to be modified to meet chang-ing conditions. So the general stafforganization of the A. T. & T. Com-pany, through its close associationwith engineering and operating per- 19

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