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Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (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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sful candidate,hurrying back and forth betweenthem, may speak to the nation; pri-vate branch exchange batteries arewatched closely, for the power re-quirements are heavy; emergencycharging sets are provided and held inreadiness. There is no let-up in theactivity. From a telephone standpoint, one ofthe busiest spots in Philadelphia wasthe private branch exchange in theBellevue-Stratford Hotel—an eightposition board which serves 1,000hotel telephones. To care for the sit-uation here, the operating force wasbuilt up to a peak of thirty-onewomen. Working in tours, theyhandled traffic loads ranging up to1200 per cent above normal. Com-parable situations existed in the Ben-jamin Franklin and other big hotels. Local and long distance telephonetraffic ebbed and flowed. Duringconvention week in Philadelphia, longdistance calls ran about thirteen percent above normal. On Friday—theday the convention wound up its bal-loting with the selection of a Vice 19^0 Conventions and Communications 183
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PLANT HEADQUARTERS IN CONVENTION HALL The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania provided men and materials to meet quicklythe day-to-day needs of the convention Presidential nominee—they shot uptwenty per cent above normaL Of material assistance in the ex-peditious handling of the great volumeof calls to and from the delegates andconvention officials was a one-pagetelephone directory which listed themany individuals, committees, newsassociations and other agencies whichhad subscribed for service during theconvention. This information sheetwas revised and issued daily to pri-vate branch exchanges in hotels, andto newspapers, telegraph companies,and the like. It also was used by thetelephone companys own informationoperators. Impossible is it to recount here allthat was done in a telephone way tolet America listen and look in on thedramatic proceedings of a great po-litical convention. It is enough tosay that the countless telephone menand women working quietly, effi-ciently, intentl

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