Identifier: bellvol24telephonemag00amerrich (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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p-swing at Hawthorne demonstratesclearly how Western Electric people,like all in the Bell System, face upsquarely to the long line of two mil-lion and more of the public who wanttelephone service and want it quick.At Western, they are doing every-thing in their power to supply the phone people tackle a rehabilitationjob in the wake of a hurricane orflood. They are doing it emergency-style— —make temporary connections tothe machines . . . run the water andcompressed air pipes in quick! —slap in the power leads, well i6o Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN get them into conduits after a while. —start the wheels rolling, pronto I —pick up three days, four days,now, when we need it. —later will be time enough to clearup the temporary construction! Thats how Westerns men andwomen are getting out the stuff. sets around here in spite of hell andhigh water! There are thousands like Charleyat Hawthorne. Dreams Come True To WALK into the Hawthorne shopsnowadays is to renew, suddenly, the
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These small punch presses are now pounding out piece parts for telephone equipmentas the arduous conversion from wartime to peacetime production goes swiftly ahead Take Charley Carroll. He runsthe miscellaneous station apparatusdivision. Hes got black, curly hair,a firm mouth, and a strong chin.Charley sticks that chin out and heputs it in words. Look, mister, says Charley,were producing high-class telephone childhood dreams of Santa Claussworkshop. It is that way for a tele-phone man, anyhow. Beautiful shiny black telephonehandles glide on their conveyor car-riers four abreast in a long line to-ward the assembly benches. Glittering cross-bar switch units ^945 Wester?i Electric Tackles the Peace-time Emergency i6i swing along overhead trolley tracksto keep a date with cables of gay-colored wires that will be stitched inplace with thousands of drops ofsolder. Snakes of hot copper looking likeneon lights shoot from the rod millsrolls, are grasped by tongs and fed would thrill and terrif

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