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
Digitizing Sponsor: BayNet

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versing the region, but man\miles of new poles were also set. In the midsummer heat, the work-ers donned heavy gloves to handle constructed by and for the Armythroughout the training area. Fifty-three miles of pole line were con-structed by the Army and 117 milesbv tlie telephone company. The three hottest weeks of the blistering-hot tools and wires. V.x- year saw the telephone men workingerybody wore dark glasses. Salt ten hours a da\, in deep sand navl- 124 Bell Telephone Magazine SUMMER gable only by tanks and half-tracks,and through mountains where theholes for setting poles frequentlyrequired dynamite blasting. Thecrews strung 1,400 circuit miles ofwire, set 1,000 poles, and installed1,500 crossarms. Maximum use was made of car- positions. About 115 operators wererequired. Women throughout theSouthern California Company terri-tory volunteered for the assignmentand were stationed at Whitewater,Blythe, and Needles. The typical Army division camp inthe desert was of the rag variety.
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An Armv jeep accompanies these telephone trucks with their reels of wire rier systems to conserve copper. AtWhitewater, for example, carrierequipment was increased 300 per-cent. Soon the station had 20 re-peatermen, as compared with 12 be-fore the rush began. The heavytraffic also created an immediate needfor women to operate new toll board consisting of tents—and no improve-ments. The soldiers lived a lifeduplicating the conditions they wouldfind overseas. At any given time,there were more than 100,000 troopsto direct, transport, hospitalize, feedand clothe independently of normalsupply channels; for the training was 1945 The West Coast in the War 125 on the basis of actual war conditions,thousands of miles from home. Wirecommunications were essential in ef-fecting coordination. The wire communications were es-sentially a private line network prin-cipally for intra-commimication in thedesert. While the extent of the net- several networks serving many pri-vate-line teletypewriters.

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