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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tric,like many another vital defense in-dustry, is burning midnight oil: extrashifts in key departments are con-tributing heavily to the Companystotal defense effort. W. E. in Action You cant tell the story of actionon the communications sector withgeneralizations and statistics alone.You have to go into the front lines. You have to see, for instance, a crewof installers rolling out of improvisedbunks in an unheated, unfinishedarmy barracks to complete an elab-orate PBX installation before thetroops arrive. You have to see theconveyor systems in the Westerns 29distributing houses disgorging mate-rial labeled National Defense. Youhave to see the men and women andmachines of Hawthorne, Kearny,Point Breeze, and the other W. E.plants in action. You have to visitone of Uncle Sams vast new Armycamps. Take Camp Blanding, for instance,Floridas fifth largest city, popula-tion 45,000. Twelve months ago theuninhabited 55,000-acre tract wasgiven over to palms and pines andan impenetrable thicket.
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For an Air Base am) Two Army Camps Cable, switchboard sediorif!. and miscellarteous equipment are leaving Itie loading dock of a ^\ eslern Electric Didribiitin<j House. With a magnifying glass, the words National Defense can be seen on every address label 124 Bi:ll Tklkphoine Magazine AUGUST Nearest community to Blanding isStarke, 30 air miles south of Jackson-ville. A year ago Starke awoke witha jolt. Twenty-two thousand work-men came to town. In a week cot-space was at a premium. A boomtown overnight, Starke went to workin earnest for defense. On October 26, 1940, the first flagwent up over the soldier city. Workcrews knocked off for a few minutesto gaze at the banner, then set toagain at the double. Early in Decem-ber the troops began to roll in by trainand truck. Based at Blanding todayare two full Infantry divisions and aField Artillery brigade. To provide communications facili-ties for the mushrooming militarycity, the Bell System matched strideswith Uncle Sam. Pine trees had

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