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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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a million warrants wereneeded in the initial order, and 14,500pounds of special paper had to bemilled in advance for this purpose.For numbering and final printing ofterms on the warrants, it was neces-sary to install at 195 Broadway eightprinting presses and one power cutter.These presses were operated from 16to 20 hours a day for a period of eightdays. Visitors to the temporary quartersat 63 Wall Street were particularly in-terested in the number of stagesthrough which bond subscriptionspassed. By reason of the volume andnature of the work, a step-by-stepprocess was used which involved adozen or more separate operations.During one of these steps a micro-picture of each subscription and ac-companying remittance was made byRecordak for record purposes. Thismachine took small pictures on a con-tinuous film, and had self-containedequipment for projecting full-size en-largements of the material photo-graphed. A favorite picture to show visitors 19^1 The 1941 Convertible bu?<D Issue 231
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Temporary Print ShopThese presses were installed in the A. T. 4 T. building in connection with final printing of the warrants in demonstrating this equipment wasone of a cashiers check which hadbeen received from a small countrybank to cover a $700 subscription butwhich, by a slip of the check-writer,had been written for $1,000,700.Needless to say, the check was re-turned for correction. A large num-ber of checks received, many frombanks, had to be returned because ofbeing incorrectly written or unsigned.If one of the amounts on a check wascorrect, however, and the other wasnot more than $200 or $300 off, thecheck was put through for clearancewith a certification by the Companyas to the correct amount. Because the long-distance wires areimportant to the speeding-up of thenations defense program, the commu-nications bureau at 63 Wall Street,which was receiving about a thousandletters per day to answer, did not make use of out-of-town telephonecalls as frequently as it otherwisewould ha

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