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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1945 The West Coast in the War 129 war with Japan. The company, in tion of other Associated Companies cooperation with the Long Lines De- —enabled the Pacific Company to partment and other Bell System muster the needed material and per- Companies, started this cable work sonnel to complete the jobs in the in the autumn of 1940. The cable shortest possible time. was open for service in December, 1942. The Pacific Companys andBell Company of Nevadas share ingross construction amounted to $7,-300,000 and involved 500,000 man-hours of telephone company work. ^ Aj •^v IZZ -«^ EI- ««.^ If •■ ^ . -^ iL
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Mud fought the progress of the cabletrain in some localities The combined teamwork of theBell System—the O. & E. staff ofthe A. T. & T. Company, the manu-facturing and supply capacity ofWestern Electric, and the coopera- Trenching by hand was sometimesnecessary in rocky terrain The Pace Accelerate Huge population shifts within thecoastal territory, as well as fromother parts of the country, createdtremendous demands for service,over and above military and war in-dustry demands. As of May i,1945, the Pacific Company had 256,-140 unfilled applications for main I30 Bell Telephone Magazine SUMMER telephones; and 187 central officesdesigned to serve 1,000 or moremain telephones had reached their ca-pacities—or 50 percent of the totalof such central offices which serve in the midst of orange orchards in1942, is now said to be the worldslargest producer of heavy ammuni-tion. A large Navy project is underconstruction involving an investment about 96 percent of the telephones in of

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