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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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fact that courtesy andfriendliness on their part would beaccepted by the public as recognizedqualities of the great organizationthey represented. And they so main-tained this standard that not only werethere many comments of appreciationfor their treatment of visitors but alsoregarding the attitude and relationshipof the personnel toward each other. lo repeat part of a question raisedearlier in the text: How did the visi-tors and the Bell System benefit by theExhibit? Well, the visitors, by thecrowds in which they came, by theenthusiasm with which they partici-pated, and by their comments, someof which have been quoted, havespoken for themselves. And how did the System benefit?In many ways. In a building of in-viting dignity, people found exhibitswhich were interesting, entertaining,and in many cases personally helpful.Most of the things they saw and didwere indicative of the part researchplays in providing present-day tele-phone service, and all of them were 19^0 The New York Fair 71
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PEOPLE ARE LISTENING IN Receivers bring the demonstration long distance calls to listeners on the ground floor, while visitors on the balcony watch the progress of the calls across the great map and even those on the escalator try not to miss anything expressive of the wide scope of theSystems undertakings. Visitors tookaway with them an impression of thecourteous treatment which is repre-sentative of the attitude of telephonepeople everywhere toward the public.Not least valuable to the Systemwas the knowledge of the speed, ex-tent, clarity, and convenience of ourlong distance service gained at firsthand by the 30,000 who made dem-onstration calls—and the equal num-ber who received them—and by the1,500,000 listeners who partook vi-cariously of the same experience. Theopportunity to give such large num-bers of people, from all sections of the country, direct and personal ac-quaintance with those features of theservice occurs only at worlds fairs,and is, indeed, one of the principal

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