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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d for business,the camps PBX has been increasedto ten positions and its capacity hassoared to 1300 lines; cable require-ments have lifted radically; publictelephones for the convenience ofsoldiers off duty have been installed. Blanding, for all its jig-time con-struction, is not unique. Althoughone of the largest, it is in point offact typical of the scores of defense establishments, located at a distancefrom sizable communications centers,which must be fitted with completetelephone facilities in the interest ofnational security. At Corpus Christi xIeres another example. At Corpus Christi, Texas, close bythe Mexican border, there stands abrand-new $44,000,000 assembly-linesix months long. Today it is turningout Americas most urgent defenseweapons: flying men—300 of thema month. Its the worlds largest na-val air station. Yesterday, it seems,it was a waste of sand dunes andmesquite. With a total acreage of14,500, Corpus Christi has 29 sepa- 19^1 Western Electric: Telephone Arsenal 127
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—WITH THE Greatest of Ease Conversation with ground stations and with other ships inflight is vital to this pilot of one of the celebrated Army P-Ws. Note the throat microphone, which transmits the voice clearly but not motor and other extraneous noises rate air fields. Twenty-five are prac-tice landing fields scattered over twocounties. Only the main base andthree auxiliary fields are edged withdormitories and administration build-ings, however, so that the huge aircampus will have four separate dialPBX systems—an 800-line 701-APBX with five 605-A positions forthe main base, two unattended 100-line 711-As and a single-position701-A for the auxiliary fields. Willhave? On June 7 all four PBXswent into service simultaneously, sixweeks after Western Electric instal-lers put in their first appearance. Equipment for the main base wasordered April 9, shipped on the 23rd.Installation began on the 28th. West- ern Electrics two Texas distributinghouses established a record, too, byshipping

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