Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (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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ave the finest telephone service andequipment in the world, all concen-trated under one company*; a com-pany that has been so enthusiastically * This reference is obviously to the function ofthe A. T. and T. Company in coordinating, atthe Armys request, the activities of the BellSystem companies and the countrys severalthousand independent telephone companies toprovide service for the aircraft warning net-work.—Ed. 16 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY helpful in cooperating with the Armythat it can be said with assurance thatit couldnt have been done without thetelephone company. They have de-veloped special equipment; their en-gineers have worked with the Armyover long periods; they have designedand built information centers and lent their experts to teach people how torun them; they have done, are doing,a magnificent job. However, the es-sential point about this whole ingeni-ous system is so sound—proved sosound in battle—that it may well bethe determining factor that winswars.
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On Their WayThese pilots of interceptor-pursuit planes have been ordered into the air on a mission *FREQUENTLY REPRINTED DIRECTORIESFOR THE INFORMATION SERVICE Special Printings of the Customer Telephone Book, Supplemented by Other Records, Are a Recent Development Permitting a Faster and More Accurate Service on Calls to ^^Information By JEROME D. TOWE THE progress made by the BellSystem in providing customerswith an increasingly satisfac-tory and pleasing service on calls toInformation was reviewed in arecent issue of this Magazine.* Inemphasizing the importance of com-plete and easily usable records for theuse of Information operators in hand-ling calls, reference was made to arelatively new development known asthe frequently reprinted directory,which has contributed substantiallyto the improvement of Informationservice in large and medium-sizedcities. These Information directoriesare brought up to date and completelyreprinted at frequent intervals, usu-ally every two weeks, and pr

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