. Bell telephone magazine . Peter L. Schauble indeed mark the end of an era—but an erafor which there need be no regret, no nos-talgia for the good old days. The days ofcompetitive telephone service were notgood: duplicative service was always un-economic and a nuisance. And since thecountry finally got rid of it, for all practi-cal purposes, at Philadelphia last September17, it is Peter L. Schauble who tells howits end came about. For he is vice presidentof the Bell Telephone Company of Penn-sylvania in charge of the Public Relations {Continued on page 255) Index to Volume XXIV An Index to Vo
. Bell telephone magazine . Peter L. Schauble indeed mark the end of an era—but an erafor which there need be no regret, no nos-talgia for the good old days. The days ofcompetitive telephone service were notgood: duplicative service was always un-economic and a nuisance. And since thecountry finally got rid of it, for all practi-cal purposes, at Philadelphia last September17, it is Peter L. Schauble who tells howits end came about. For he is vice presidentof the Bell Telephone Company of Penn-sylvania in charge of the Public Relations {Continued on page 255) Index to Volume XXIV An Index to Volume XXIV (1945)of the Bell Telephone Magazinemay be obtained upon request tothe Information Department of theAmerican Telephone and TelegraphCompany, 195 Broadway, New York7, N. Air express was the fastest method of getting telephones to certain areas whereshortage of instruments alone was delaying service to waiting customers—so byair express they went. See The Bell Systems First Order of Business, page 295 ■I The Bell Systems Development and Huge Production of Many Kinds of Radars Rank High as a Contribution to The Victories Over the Axis Powers Radar and BellLaboratories Mervin J. Kelly Radar—RAdio Detection AndRanging—in the importance of itscontribution to victory ranks highamong the new weapons of WorldWar II. It employs radio waves forthe detection and accurate location ofobjects, fixed or moving. It can seefarther than the eye, even under con-ditions most favorable to vision. Itsees equally well by night and by smoke, fog, clouds, nor raindiminishes its range or its resolutionof objects. Radar refers to no single instru-ment : it is a synthetic word which de-scribes a function. Indeed, an indi-vidual radar set may weigh only ahundr
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