. Bell telephone magazine . furt had to be established and , there were the tasks ofstaflSng the centers; working out de-tails for the booking and handling ofcalls and the handling of funds; es-tablishing a switchboard at Frank-furt; and arranging a coordinatedi schedule for operating it. In fact,these Long Lines men had to puttheir hand to almost all the jobswhich have to be done to make a tele-phone system work. They had minor adventures, too. Though armed with credentials, two Long Liners, travelling from Berlin : through the Russian occupied zone, ! found that cigarettes we
. Bell telephone magazine . furt had to be established and , there were the tasks ofstaflSng the centers; working out de-tails for the booking and handling ofcalls and the handling of funds; es-tablishing a switchboard at Frank-furt; and arranging a coordinatedi schedule for operating it. In fact,these Long Lines men had to puttheir hand to almost all the jobswhich have to be done to make a tele-phone system work. They had minor adventures, too. Though armed with credentials, two Long Liners, travelling from Berlin : through the Russian occupied zone, ! found that cigarettes were the best. work was completed and service wasopened to the United States fromFrankfurt and Munich. On succes-sive weeks Heidelburg, Nuremburg,Bremen, Kassel, and Stuttgart werelinked on; and by February 21 thenetwork was completed with the open-ing at Berlin. Only calls placed from Germanycould be handled, because of the dif-ficulty and delay which would haveresulted from trying to locate sol-diers to receive calls placed by theirfamilies or friends in the UnitedStates. The response to the servicewas, to the telephone men, a gratify-ing reward for their efforts. 32 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING The service was originally estab-lished with two transatlantic tele-phone circuits and a teletype ordercircuit over which booking informa-tion and call reports were a third telephone circuit had tobe added; and with this arrangement,calls have been completed at the rateof some 7,000 a month. A FRIENDLY SPIRIT pervaded the tele-phone centers, and the soldiers co-operated splendidly in followin
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