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Identifier: belltvol20elephonemag00amerrich (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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has become the arsenal oftelephony. For many years WesternElectric has been termed the Bell Sys-tems service of supply, a phraseborrowed from the armed forces. TheW. E. organization was establishedand is maintained to secure the ad-vantages of standardized manufactureand of large-scale centralized pur-chasing coordinated with nation-widedistributing and equipment installa-tion forces—all in order to supply acommunications front stretching thelength and breadth of our country.In emergency after emergency thistype of organization has demonstratedits advantages. Today, in an unlim-ited national emergency, they areonce more apparent. * So, of course, arc the products of othermanufacturers of communication equipment,who supply in large part the needs of thecountrys 6,400 independent Bell-connectingtelephone companies. Many of them arc alsoworking on defense contracts directly for thearmed forces. See Independent TelephoneCompanies, Magazine, May, 1941. 118 Bell Telephonl: Magazine AUGUST
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Planning Comes First In all Weslern Eledric plants, engineering conferences are a basic preliminary to theproduction of communication equipment for the nations defense Western Electrics defense effort istwo-fold. The Company has thrownits full weight of man-power and ma-chines into (1) the manufacture ofradio and other communication itemsfor the Army, the Navy, and the AirCorps, and (2) the engineering, manu-facture, and installation of telephoneequipment ordered through the BellSystem operating companies for serv-ice in government defense establish-ments, in vital privately-owned de-fense plants, in Bell System centraloffices and cross-country circuits ex-panding to meet the communicationsdemands of a nation girding itself forany eventuality. The Bell System laid the ground-work for its defense activities well in advance of the first huge defenseappropriations. Telephone companyand Western Electric men organizedregional defense committees to speedlocal activities. In New York, thehea

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