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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tion of thedefense effort because to some extentit is getting in on practically every-thing. Southwestern newspaper headlinesfor months have been reporting dailyadditions to defense activity: a $30,-000,000 TNT plant at WeldonSprings, Mo.; a $5,000,000 shipyardat Houston built in 100 days; thelargest air base in the world, built at Corpus Christi for the Navy; morethan a score of Army camps, new andenlarged; airplane factories and airfields; chemical plants and munitiondumps . , . the list runs on and on.And each in its way has offered achallenge to the telephone forces. Just as a sample, at Freeport, Tex.,a $10,000,000 addition was made to amagnesium plant. Result: the num-ber of workers at the plant jumpedfrom 550 to 2000—a fair-sized in-crease for one factory in a town of2600. And thats not all. Whenbuilding began, nearly 5000 construc-tion workers poured into Freeport—nearly twice the towns normal popu-lation. So strained were living accom- 184 Bell Telephone Magazine NOVEMBER
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Lines in a Hurry Telephone service is one of the first require-ments of the contractor building a defenseproject—in this case Camp Robinson, Ark.Permanent facilities come later, when re-quirements for the camp itself are definitelyknown modations that some of these men hadto stay in Houston, and drive 125miles a day to and from work-Even more spectacular, a small-arms munition plant employing 8000workers is now in operation at LakeCity, Mo., which early last spring hada population of 30! And these arejust two examples. This tremendous expansion, plusthe acute need for speed, has facedthe telephone industry with some major problems—just as it has, ofcourse, many other industries. Forwhen factories costing millions startrising in the middle of flats previouslyinhabited by sea gulls, and Armycamps spring up among the scrub oaksand armadillos, the job of rushing intelephone facilities is by no meanssimple. It can be done, and it is beingdone. But it has taken some fastaction. Action t

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