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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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Department says, Nonaval construction program of com-parable size and speed has ever beenaccomplished by any other nation. I KNOW of no more typical Ameri-can story than the history of the air-plane. Two brothers who madetheir living by mending bicycles ina medium-sized town, invented it.They lived in a free country whereinhibitions were few, where anyonecould try anything, where inventionand industry were encouraged. Suchthings happen more often in the freeatmosphere of America than else-where. Likewise, this atmosphereinvigorates industrial management sothat when war came the airplane in-dustry here was able to expand sorapidly that we now lead the world 1943-44 Private Enterprise and Freedom from Want 211 with the production of more than types to a degree and with a speed 8,000 airplanes a month; probably at our enemies cannot match. The least twice the output of the Axis Na- teamwork of research, design, engi- tions, and as much as that of the neering and production is one of the
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Mr. Gifford (left) receives the Vermilye Medal from Charles S. Redding, Presidentof Franklin Institute. The citation accompanying the medal reads: To Walter S.Gifford, President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, whothroughout the past two years of war has directed the managerial affairs of theBell Telephone industry in such a way as to afford singular satisfaction to the usersof the service, to the employees of the organization, to the owners of the propertyand to the public at large; admirably meeting a greatly increased demand for thetelephone service in face of sharp limitation of priorities on materials and men,and devoting the entire resources of his companys research laboratories as well asthe great part of its manufacturing establishment to the special requirements ofthe armed forces of this country and of its allies. other United Nations and Axis Na-tions combined. And what is more,we can keep up and even increase thequantity of production and at thesame time ch

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