. Bell telephone magazine . the highways and the wrecked streetsof their territories, telephone trucks—singly or highballing inconvoy behind police escort—bearing the license plates of dis-tant states. Men: all that could be used. Men: trained inBell System methods, familiar with Bell System equipment,needing no instruction but only to be shown the task. Men—and their own trucks, their own tools, their own foremxcn andsupervisors. Bell System men! And, that the record be complete, it should be noted that 42operators from Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, were broughtto New York by train and fl
. Bell telephone magazine . the highways and the wrecked streetsof their territories, telephone trucks—singly or highballing inconvoy behind police escort—bearing the license plates of dis-tant states. Men: all that could be used. Men: trained inBell System methods, familiar with Bell System equipment,needing no instruction but only to be shown the task. Men—and their own trucks, their own tools, their own foremxcn andsupervisors. Bell System men! And, that the record be complete, it should be noted that 42operators from Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, were broughtto New York by train and flown thence to Boston, where theytook their places beside their sister operators at the Long Dis-tance switchboard. At the first word of disaster, the Western Electric Companyslipped into well-oiled emergency gear: 3-shift, 24-hour opera-tion. The Hawthorne and Clearing Works in Illinois, Kearny,Point Breeze, the New York headquarters, the local distribut-ing houses—^particularly the Boston, New Haven, and Brook- 226.
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