. Bell telephone magazine . f maritime ships in that the term maritime ships, asused here, excludes vessels built un-der contracts with the Army andNavy, but does count some specialships, such as LST (Landing ShipTank). These aircraft and shipbuilding ii8 Bell Telephone Magazine SUMMER plants employed more than 760,000people at the end of 1944, and theyaccounted for the lions share of to-tal war supply contracts on the WestCoast through the year 1944. Thesecontracts through the year 1944amounted to over twenty-two billiondollars, or more than the nationaldebt in 1932. This large-scale
. Bell telephone magazine . f maritime ships in that the term maritime ships, asused here, excludes vessels built un-der contracts with the Army andNavy, but does count some specialships, such as LST (Landing ShipTank). These aircraft and shipbuilding ii8 Bell Telephone Magazine SUMMER plants employed more than 760,000people at the end of 1944, and theyaccounted for the lions share of to-tal war supply contracts on the WestCoast through the year 1944. Thesecontracts through the year 1944amounted to over twenty-two billiondollars, or more than the nationaldebt in 1932. This large-scale building of shipsand planes caused overnight changes of 309 percent. San Diego owes its89 percent growth in population overthe four-year period to Navy activi-ties and aircraft manufacturing. This big growth was naturally re-flected in telephone traffic. In SanDiego, the four years saw toll callssoar from a pre-war figure of 8,000daily to a daily average of more than32,000 in the early part of 1945—a300 percent Pacific Coast airplane factories produced more than 25,000 planes in 1944 in many towns and cities. Typicalcommunities of peace-time Americabecame roaring centers of war pro-duction. Take Richmond and SanDiego as examples. Richmond,which during March, 1945, had fivemajor shipyards employing approxi-mately 67,000 people, grew from anindustrial city of 30,000 in 1940 to awar center with a population of 122,-700 at the first of 1945—an increase The company as a whole handledabout 290,000,000 toll calls in 1944:double the total for 1940. Calls toplaces outside the companys terri-tory totaled more than 7,700,000;nearly ten times the volume of fouryears ago. The handling of this telephonebusiness resulted, as might be ex-pected, in correspondingly rapid in-creases in the traffic forces. Where 1945 The West Coast in the War 119 at the end of 1940 there were 14,000 Three Major Projectstraffic employees, the force numbered ahiiost 24,000 at the end of secu
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