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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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from the time the decisionis reached at the Air Defense Con-trol Center. The availability of theregular message telephone circuits,which in themselves are on variousroutes and well protected by tele-phone company diversification of fa- In addition to providing the meansalready discussed for sending outan alarm, telephone companies aredeeply involved in plans of the CivilDefense Organization. Nation-widetelephone and teletypewriter net-works are required, and cities in tar-get areas are establishing detailedplans for preventive measures and forrelief and restoration after an attack.These plans involve the establishmentof disaster control centers which mustbe able to talk to police, fire, hospital,utility, and other vital services forcoordination and direction of reliefwork. These communications require- cilities, as an alternative arrangement ments are substantial, and offer ameets the need for back-up at very number of special problems. Thelow cost. Bell System is working closely with
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Checking employees identity is a precaution against the entry of unauthorized persons into telephone buildings i95i The Bell Systems Part in Defending the Nation Civil Defense authori-ties at all levels—na-tional, state, and local—to meet these needswith the most suitabletools: signaling sys-tems; wire, radio, mo-bile, or point-to-pointcommunications, all ofwhich the telephonecompanies n o w haveavailable in almost alllarge centers. A tele-phone man is part ofthe staff of practicallyevery civil defense or-ganization. Continuity andReliability ofService It is essential to pro-vide the service re-quired, of course; butunless continuity ismaintained and provi-sion is made forprompt restoration ofinterrupted service, it cannot be saidthat the job has been done. Tele-phone companies face this problemconstantly, and experience over theyears has shown the necessity forbuilding plant and arranging every-day operations to assure the maxi-mum of service reliability. The national toll networ

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