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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 took part in asymposium on The Bell Systems Prog-ress in Television Networks which waspublished in the Autumn 194b issue. The Bell System career of W. M.Marsters began with the New EnglandTelephone and Telegraph Company inPortland, Maine, in 1910, and the ensuing40 years have seen but two major inter-ruptions: the first while he completed hisstudies, graduating in 1 <j 1 -4 : and the sec-ond, during World War I, while he servedin the Office of the Chief Signal Officer,A.E.F. With Western Electric for a shortrime in I 14.. he was one of the originaltelephone repeater men on the first trans-continental route, before transferring to theLong Lines Department the following year.When he returned from the Army, in 1919,he was assigned to equipment engineeringwork associated with the rapidly devel-oping carrier-operated toll systems andwith dial central offices. For thirty yearsand more his activities have expanded fromthat point, and he has been involved in(Continued on page 66)
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A neve feature on the American landscape: one of the radio relay stations of the Long Lines Department oj the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. This one is near Valparaiso, hid. See the article beginning on page 25 In His Statement at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders Of A, T. &? T., the Company s President Points Out the Post-lVar Gains and the Problems JVhich Lie Ahead Events of Great MagnitudeIn Our Business Leroy A. Hudson In thk last five years events of steep rises in wages and also in the great magnitude and importance in cost of materials. These have af- our business have been taking place fected us in two ways: with remarkable speed. While all First, the cost of construction per of them may be more or less familiar telephone has gone up so that the to most of you, I think a brief review new plant we have had to build— will be helpful in making their sig- and are still building—is a lot more nificance more clear. expensive than plant built years ago. First is

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