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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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ulway in the normal conduct of theirjobs and in their personal contactwith the public. They are daily sup-plying the third ingredient of serv-ice that the public wants; they addthe seasoning of courtesy and pleas-antness to speed, accuracy, and ef-ficiency. i95i Telephone People Are Good Neighbors 123 Service in Emergencies Every day, everywhere throughoutthe country, emergency calls of vary-ing nature are put through withspeed and sureness by the ladies ofthe switchboard—the telephone op-erators. Emergency calls for the fire andpolice departments, for ambulancesand doctors, are not in the least un-usual. They are considered—andproperly so—as a routine part of thedays duty. They involve, for themost part, calls in which the callergives complete information—whatis wanted and why, the address, andother vital facts. Operators aretrained to handle these quickly andefficiently, and as a result they do notconstitute anything extraordinary—even though a life may hang in thebalance.
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Letters from grateful customers, commending the people who serve them, are frequentlypublished in company magazines or used in bulletin-board posters. These examplescontained letters from a headmaster, an elderly lady, the YMCA, and the state police 124 Bell Telephone Magazine SUMMER

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