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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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school facili-ties. Flexibility in schedulingclasses is provided throughdirect contact between theOperating Company and theLocal Service Command. AT&T General Staff 2l6 Surveys are made to deter-mine available schoolcapacities in the variousOperating Companies.Programs are prepared incoordination with theOffice of the Chief SignalOfficer to match Arn^y re-quirements with availableschool facilities. i Bell System Plant Schooling for Service Men 11^ munication work to fit them for duty.The training of so many thousandsof communication specialists is a stu-pendous job. The training problem was particu-larly acute in the year following thiscountrys entry into the war. In thatyear—1942—the needs of the grow- staffs, should volunteer to assist theSignal Corps in its communicationtraining program. That help waslater expanded to include other Serv-ice branches. In 1942, more than4,000 service men—soldiers, sailors,and marines—attended communica-tion courses conducted in Bell Sys-
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In this group are 38 Marine Corps students, 97 Army Signal Corps students, and21 telephone company instructors. This is one of the largest groups to receive Bell System training ing Army threatened to outstrip thecapacity of the training facilities atthe Army Signal schools. Everyavailable facility for training, indus-trial as well as military, was calledupon to assist. It was a most natural thing thatthe Bell System, with its long estab-lished training schools and instructor tem plant training schools by BellSystem instruction staffs. This year(1943) there will be many more, tokeep pace with expanding military re-quirements. Broadly speaking, there have beentwo principal reasons for the BellSystems part in the over-all mili-tary communication training pro- 21 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER gram. The first was to take theoverflow from the Signal schoolsat the time when their own facilitieswere overtaxed by the expanding de-mands. The second was to providespecial technical courses in w

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