. Bell telephone magazine . ary communica-tions; shortages of school space; andshortages of instructors. Many tele-phone company instructors were al-ready in the armed forces, or en-gaged in training new recruits andupgrading craftsmen in the telephonebusiness. What happened on December 7,1941, called for prompt action. Itwas vital to avoid being too night, surveys were rushed in to { 1943-44 Bell System Plant Schooling for Service Men 111 A. T. & T. headquarters from theAssociated Companies to help line uptraining schedules. Priority requestsfor school equipment flashed over theA. T
. Bell telephone magazine . ary communica-tions; shortages of school space; andshortages of instructors. Many tele-phone company instructors were al-ready in the armed forces, or en-gaged in training new recruits andupgrading craftsmen in the telephonebusiness. What happened on December 7,1941, called for prompt action. Itwas vital to avoid being too night, surveys were rushed in to { 1943-44 Bell System Plant Schooling for Service Men 111 A. T. & T. headquarters from theAssociated Companies to help line uptraining schedules. Priority requestsfor school equipment flashed over theA. T. & T. lines to shipments of instructors andequipment sometimes helped to pushback the hands of the clock. Theairport at Chicago on one occasion training, only to snatch it back a bitlater to meet more urgent needs atthe front. Some of these initial hurdles oc-curred immediately following PearlHarbor; but plans for the handlingof training arrangements quicklyshaped up along lines graphed onpage Students learn to install telephones and maintain lines by practicing with actualequipment in telephone company class rooms held up a stratoliner for a bulky pack-age of school apparatus en route to acompany school on the Pacific had to take the door off theplane to squeeze it through. But theservice men graduated from schoolon time to sail with their outfit andthat was what counted. Sometimesthe Army would lend the telephonecompany new equipment needed for Training for Spiral-4 One of the first jobs the BellSystem took over at the request ofthe Signal Corps was instructionneeded on Spiral-4. The Spiral-4system operates over four wirestightly encased in a rubber sheath-ing to form a cable not much thickerthan a lead pencil. Miles of this ca-ble can be reeled off a speeding truck 222 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER to bridge long gaps between thelarger headquarters at the carrier and repeaterequipments are used to boost up themessage capaci
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