. Bell telephone magazine . fe to say that no less than10,000 men and women have beenplaced in the ranks,^^ The Infantry of this force is the7,000 employees of the AssociatedCompanies that furnish telephoneservice in the area. The EngineerCorps is Western Electrics installa-tion men, now only a company ofabout 200. But these are mobiletroops and early in 1942, at thepeak of their campaign of switch-board and PBX installation. Westernhad two battalions—900 men on thefiring line. The SOS, WesternsWashington distributing house, ac-counts for another company of about175 which, at the height of the
. Bell telephone magazine . fe to say that no less than10,000 men and women have beenplaced in the ranks,^^ The Infantry of this force is the7,000 employees of the AssociatedCompanies that furnish telephoneservice in the area. The EngineerCorps is Western Electrics installa-tion men, now only a company ofabout 200. But these are mobiletroops and early in 1942, at thepeak of their campaign of switch-board and PBX installation. Westernhad two battalions—900 men on thefiring line. The SOS, WesternsWashington distributing house, ac-counts for another company of about175 which, at the height of the battleof wartime expansion, now past its ^° 571 employees of the C. & P. TelephoneCompanies in the Washington area were inmilitary service at the beginning of 1943. ^^ 9)Ji33 employees engaged in 3 years by theC. & P. Telephone Company alone. 64 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY turning point and in our favor,shipped telephone materials fromstock in lots as high as 700 tons aweek—much of it for the Capital Ingenious time-saver: tin can andstring convey toll tickets from a tolloffice to temporary toll positions twofloors above via holes drilled throughthe floors. Three days before thispicture was taken, the authors deskstood on this spot area. A. T. & T. and Long Lines,the Signal Company of the garrison,musters at present about 200 people,where a detachment of 85, at the firstof 1940, was quite adequate. The bombs that fell on Oahu senttroops quite unexpectedly and hur-riedly to many places. They like-wise brought to Washington a bandof volunteers, summoned from statesas far away as Minnesota, to taketheir temporary places at switch-boards and with installation crewshard-pressed to carry the load. Onehundred and seventy-five of themwere on the job a fortnight after De-cember 7 and, in all, 600 experi-enced long distance operators, crafts-men, engineers, commercial repre-sentatives and others from 15 BellCompanies have seen or are now see-ing service on the Capital Fro
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