Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (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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tothe expansion of production, and the Bell Companies are deter-mined to meet every such need. Additional facilities will also berequired to provide service to people who are waiting. Short-ages of materials add severely to this problem, but every effortwill be continued to meet civilian needs to the full extent thatnational policy allows. With a large continuing construction program and no let-up indemand for service, additional financing has been authorized bythe stockholders so that the Bell System may be in a position toobtain new capital when it is needed. To attract and protect thesavings of investors, earnings must be maintained at adequate lev-els. According)), various Bell Companies have applied for fur-ther increases in telephone rates and other applications will bemade. This must be done in order that the Companies maycontinue to succeed in providing the service the nation depends onduring these critical times. Reprinted from Advance Management Magazine for January 1951 203
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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 1847-1922 Alexander Graham Bell s Varied Interests and Numerous Contributions to the Welfare of Mankind Were Important Factors in the Award of This Signal Honor The Telephones InventorElected to Hall of Fame The year 195 i will include not onlythe seventy-fifth anniversary of thetelephone but the enshrinement of itsinventor, Alexander Graham Bell,in the Hall of Fame. Dr. Bell was one of six famousAmericans to be elected to the Hallof Fame on November 1, 1950.Others chosen for this signal honorwere Susan B. Anthony, suffrageleader and eighth woman to beelected; Josiah Willard G i b b s,founder of the science of physicalchemistry; Dr. William Gorgas,medical scientist, who rid the CanalZone of yellow fever; TheodoreRoosevelt, 26th President; andWoodrow Wilson, 28th Presidentand inspiration for the League ofNations. The telephone, during the three-quarters of a century since it carriedits first complete message, lias hadincalculable influence upon the world,and has t

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