File:Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14756284035).jpg

Identifier: belltelephonemag17amerrich (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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Lejt: Work goes on jar into thenight. These Southern New Eng-land men are making temporary re-pairs on a New Haven-New Londontoll cable at Lyme, Coim. New York Company construc-tion crews resetting poles alongthe Mont auk highway nearWesthampton, L. L Right: A new submarine cable to replace one wider the Taun-ton River in Massachusetts which was severed by a dragginganchor. Circle: Control station near Keene, N. H., for theshort wave radio circuits which temporarily bridged the gapto Boston.
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/ T5S?-- Pcnnsylvania Bellmen pulling to-gether ill and forNew England. THE BELL SYSTEM MOBILIZES lyn houses—the important suppliers, all were co-ordinated inone effort to one end: to get the supplies into New England andLong Island where they were needed, as they were needed, andall that were needed. They did! Movement of men and supplies into New England wascrreatly hampered by the interruptions to railroad operationand by the carrying away of bridges, the washing out of high-ways, the omnipresent blockade of fallen trees. Plant crews,whether local or of other Bell companies, were often forced totake roundabout routes; were at times entirely debarred fromcertain areas. Western Electric supplies moving in by truckencountered the same obstacles. Western also shipped largequantities by private car, by airplane, and by boat. That plant crews rolled into New England from as far southas Virginia, from as far west as Arkansas and Nebraska revealsat once two things: the urgency of the sit

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