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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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ally are handled on a System-wide basis rather than by individualBell Companies. For many years,this undertaking has been centralizedin the Purchasing Division of theWestern Electric Company—the Sys-tems manufacturing and supply or-ganization. Western Electric people have ac-quired an intimate knowledge of thekind, quality, and amount of paperthat various mills can produce. Theywork with the papermills toward further im-provement in the qual-ity of paper and greaterefficiency in production.To control the qual-ity of paper purchased,Western maintains afully equipped testinglaboratory. Here, pa-per samples are testedfor conformity withspecifications preparedby A. T. & T. engi-neers, which include re-quirements for weight,thickness, strength,opacitv, and fiber con-tent. Telephone direc-tory paper must permitclean, clear printing onboth sides of each sheetwithout show-through.It must be light inweight so that booksarent too bulky. At 1951-52 Great Books from Little Listings Grow 273
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Automatic equipment for gathering, binding, and covering telephone directories the same time, it must be able towithstand the strain of high speedpresses and constant usage by thepublic. The directory printing and bindingjob is a highly specialized one in theprinting industry. Size of page,speed of printing, and large volumesto be handled limit the number ofprinters qualified to handle the reallylarge directories. The cost t nec-essary special equipment alone canrun into millions of dollars. For aprinter to make such a substantial in-vestment, he must have assurance ofenough directory printing businessfrom year to year to make it pay. Here again Western, throughnation-wide operations, performs a service in cooperation with A. T.& T. engineers which could not bematched economically by any singleBell Company. Printers have beenencouraged to expand and improvetheir facilities. As a result, some 40of them are now qualified to print thelarger hooks. The) are strategicallylocate

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