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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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18. A home-made ringingmachine in Sun-bury, Pa. 19. The test-boards at 32Sixth .Ive., NeivYork, h e r a m ebattle sectors as patch c 0 r d shelped carry themounting trafficto and from theflooded areas.
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THE BELL SYSTEM FIGHTS THE FLOODS per cent; at Philadelphia, 67 per cent. The traffic out of NewYork to certain points was at times as high as 400 per centabove normal and emergency calls were so heavy that for theentire flood period the average traffic load in New York wasmore than fifty per cent above normal. Emergencies such as these floods naturally tend to overloadtelephone facilities not only in flooded areas but in other placesthrough increases in toll business. Plant is installed for rea-sonable engineering periods, so if adequate facilities are to beavailable for business expected within the period, there is, onthe average, even under normal business conditions, a certainamount of margin over and above current needs. These mar-gins have frequently been found helpful in time of emergency.Similarly during this flood emergency it was possible to makeeffective use of much of the present plant margin which islarger than usual because of the loss of business during thedepression. I

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