. Bell telephone magazine . icVOLUME and complexities and theshortage of facilities, there is a brightside to the picture none the less: sometruly notable achievements in the faceof those major difficulties. Accuracy, and speed of answer torecording trunk signals, have sufferedrelativelv little. Operators are cour-teous, as always, anxious to do every-thing they can to put the calls through. 1943 The Impact of War oji Long Distance Service 89 By these yardsticks, the service holdsup well. Criticisms are fewer than ever be-fore—a gratifying reflection of thepublics sympathetic understandingthat
. Bell telephone magazine . icVOLUME and complexities and theshortage of facilities, there is a brightside to the picture none the less: sometruly notable achievements in the faceof those major difficulties. Accuracy, and speed of answer torecording trunk signals, have sufferedrelativelv little. Operators are cour-teous, as always, anxious to do every-thing they can to put the calls through. 1943 The Impact of War oji Long Distance Service 89 By these yardsticks, the service holdsup well. Criticisms are fewer than ever be-fore—a gratifying reflection of thepublics sympathetic understandingthat everything within the Bell Sys-tems power is being done to give thebest possible service under todaysconditions. Long distance operators, and theirsister operators at switchboards ofall types, are imbued with a spiritwhich reflects a full realization of theimportant part they play in winningthe war. Voices of victory aretheirs as their working phrases goout over the wires to points nearbyand to places across the Traffic control bureaus such as this insure the full and efficient use of long distance circuits. Pictured is one of several which have been installed since Pearl Harbor, supplementing those then operating There have been large additions tothe operating force: 150,000 in thepast two years, to handle the in-creased traffic load and to replacelosses. But the seasoned operatorshave stood by and cooperated withthe newcomers, and together theyhave faced the challenge to the serv-ice—and have risen to it. True to the finest traditions of theservice, they are giving their best toa difficult job—and giving it willinglyand cheerfully. Soldiers of theswitchboard they have long beencalled. Never has that phrase hadmore nearly literal application thantoday. This has been a discussion of traffic 90 Bell Telephone Magazine problems. But the Bell System is ateam—a team of more than 400,000men and women. Whatever the posi-tions they play in this grim game ofwinning t
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