. Bell telephone magazine . In the past quarter century the number of overseas tele-phone messages has multiplied to almost goo,ooo a year,and the one country within reach. Great Britain, hasbecome ninety countries and territories But to the bution of the overseas service In thisperiod was the three-minute fur-loughs which it enabled lonely serv-ice men and women, far from home,to enjoy with their families. Frommilitary posts throughout the worldcame testimony to the splendid mo-rale value of such conversations. Post- War DeveIopme?if The first post-war years, 1946 and1947, were devoted to the
. Bell telephone magazine . In the past quarter century the number of overseas tele-phone messages has multiplied to almost goo,ooo a year,and the one country within reach. Great Britain, hasbecome ninety countries and territories But to the bution of the overseas service In thisperiod was the three-minute fur-loughs which it enabled lonely serv-ice men and women, far from home,to enjoy with their families. Frommilitary posts throughout the worldcame testimony to the splendid mo-rale value of such conversations. Post- War DeveIopme?if The first post-war years, 1946 and1947, were devoted to the restora-tion of service to those countrieswhere the war had interrupted it. lO Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING. Londoyi was the first foreign metropolis to be brought within reach of the Bell Systetns overseas telephone service This was delicate and difficult workin lands where telephone equipmenthad been ruined, experienced person-nel had been dispersed, materials andmoney were scarce, and major politi-cal changes were being made. In 1947, earlier plans to expandthe network of circuits and to securebetter and speedier service for thecustomer were revived. Even be-fore the war, it had been realizedthat good service required direct cir-cuits to many additional countries,particularly those offering large vol-umes of traffic. The first step in thisprogram had taken place in Decem-ber, 1936, when Paris and New Yorkwere interconnected directly, the original routing via London beingretained only as an alternative. In the post-war years, the numberof direct routes has been so increasedthat today almost two-thirds of thecountries and territories reached byoverseas service are linked directly tothe Unit
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