. Bell telephone magazine . rethan 2,000 temporary employees, work-ing with a cadre of some 200 Bell Systemmanagement people brought in from allover the country, plus a nucleus of vet-eran stock and bond people. Mostof the temporary employees, after thor-ough training, formed a task force locatedin rented quarters in the 20-story Reming-ton Rand building on Park Avenue 135 of them worked behind coun-ters set up in the lobby of 195 Broadwayto help stockholders in face-to-face trans-actions. On the first day about 5,500 per-sons streamed into the marble-pillaredhalls, with th
. Bell telephone magazine . rethan 2,000 temporary employees, work-ing with a cadre of some 200 Bell Systemmanagement people brought in from allover the country, plus a nucleus of vet-eran stock and bond people. Mostof the temporary employees, after thor-ough training, formed a task force locatedin rented quarters in the 20-story Reming-ton Rand building on Park Avenue 135 of them worked behind coun-ters set up in the lobby of 195 Broadwayto help stockholders in face-to-face trans-actions. On the first day about 5,500 per-sons streamed into the marble-pillaredhalls, with the average on succeedingdays running from 2,500 to 3,000. The pictures on these and followingpages give you a glimpse behind thescenes of the biggest financial under-taking in the history of any Americancorporation—an undertaking that, whencompleted, had raised about one-and-a-quarter billion dollars toward a recordprogram of construction, modernizationand improvement of Bell System facili-ties and services in 1964. 41.
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