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Identifier: belltelephonemag15amerrich (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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r the water was withinfour feet of the operating board, and operators were working inthe dark and chilling cold. We are going to stick as long as there is a telephone in serv-ice is one bulletin quoted from Punxsutawney at 4:25 a.m., thezero hour so far as courage is concerned for most persons. It was through these heroic operators, mostly girls, that theworld outside was kept acquainted with the terror and destruc-tion and need that existed—hastening the arrival of the rescuecrews. But it was all in the line of work for these courageous employeswith their high sense of duty. The Spectator of Somerset, Massachusetts, published thefollovi^ing tribute to the telephone organization: Ordinarily we take the modern telephones marvellous con-venience without a thought. But for the way in which this serv-ice struggled through the floods devastation we owe an expres-sion of gratitude. This gratitude must take into account theindividuals, official and employee, who worked so hard, answered 90
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