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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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at industrial centers ofthe land, to link suddenly boomingcommunities to the nation-wide tele-phone network—all these have placeda demand on the production capacityof Western Electric unmatched in theCompanys 7 2-year history. All the Companys plants are run-ning at exceptionally high annual pro- duction rates in almost every line ofcommunications equipment. A checkof central office apparatus productionshows current annual going rates of116,000 lines of panel, 584,000 linesof step-by-step, 303,000 lines of cross-bar. Manual central office equipmentis running at the rate of 2,090 switch-board positions per year. Sales ofcarrier and repeater equipment, itemsfor which there is a heavy demand tosupplement the long-distance facilitiesnow serving the nation-wide prepared-ness program, are expected to reacha total of $22,600,000 for 1941. Theloading coil going rate is currently setat 1,227,000; telephone sets at 2,870,-000; dials at 1,980,000. Rubber-cov- 122 Bell Telephone Magazine AUGUST
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Cables for EskhiuhkhkBy water, by rail, and over the road these reels of lead-covered cable—already tested, sealed,and packed—will speed to points throughout the country where an expanding telephone service requires them ered wire is being turned out at therate of 2,156,000,000 conductor feetper year. Cable shops are working atan annual rate of 48,850,000,000 con-ductor feet. Much of this lead-sheathed cable is being armored, atan annual rate of more than 5,000miles a year, for protection againstthe elements and marauding rodentswhen buried along underground tollroutes. A.NOTHER example of advance plan-ning is Western Electrics program ofconservation of vital raw materials.For some years, Bell System engineershave been studying materials, both oldand new, to assure their most effectiveuse, and today these studies are prov- ing of great value in the light of pres-ent problems of supply. In WesternElectric plants, less critical materialsare now being substituted for metalsand alloys

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