. Bell telephone magazine . shed telephone companiesfor installation in the Pentagon Build-ing and in the hundreds of home-frontmilitary bases and war factories.) These production statistics provideonly a partial index to this war pro-duction, because about half of it isnow the manufacture of restrictedweapons, about which no slightest de-tail may be mentioned. However, assome indication of the nature ofWesterns collaboration and that ofBell Telephone Laboratories with theGovernment, It can be told that on 286 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER January i, 1943, there were Q2)najor zvnr projects on
. Bell telephone magazine . shed telephone companiesfor installation in the Pentagon Build-ing and in the hundreds of home-frontmilitary bases and war factories.) These production statistics provideonly a partial index to this war pro-duction, because about half of it isnow the manufacture of restrictedweapons, about which no slightest de-tail may be mentioned. However, assome indication of the nature ofWesterns collaboration and that ofBell Telephone Laboratories with theGovernment, It can be told that on 286 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER January i, 1943, there were Q2)najor zvnr projects on Westernsbooks. In 50 out of the 92 projectsthe devices were suggested to theGovernment by Western Electric andBell Laboratories. In 78 the BellLaboratories did the research devel- $788,000,000. In addition, during1944 Western Electrics sales to theBell System amounted to more than$120,000,000, practically all of whichIs applicable to the war effort. Forthe five year period 1940 to 1944Inclusive, the companys total sales to. These major items made up Western Electrics more than 1^788,000,000 of sales to the Government in 1944 opmcnt. In 79 they furnished theproduction design, and of all 92 proj-ects Western was the Western Electric productsare helping our fighting forces turnthe tide of battle on all the worldsfighting fronts. In 1944 its sales tothe Government were more than the Government amount to more than$1,700,000,000—which exceeds totalsales to all customers during the first50 years of Its existence. WesternJ^lectrlc has met schedules whichlooked humanly impossible to of the 29 distributinghouses converted repair shop facilities I944~45 Western Electric s First y^ Years: A Chronology 287 to assist the three major company has leased 22 satelliteplants in 15 cities, and has made sub-contracts and other purchase arrange-ments with nearly 15,000 subcon-tractors and suppliers. Western Electrics history has beeninseparable from the
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