Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14569579728)
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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive
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isory positionsin Omaha and Minneapolis. At present heis supervisor of employment in the Min-nesota Area Traffic Department. An editor and writer in Western Elec-trics public relations organization, How-ard G. Anderson is responsible for pre-paring and circulating informative articlesabout the Bell Systems manufacturingand supply unit to public relations menand women of the Bell telephone companies.His introduction to the writing trade was asa newspaper reporter in Allentown, Pa.,where he spent much of his time preparingfeature stories about the colorful inhabitantsof that PennsyKania Dutch community.After a three-year tour of duty as gunneryofficer in the Navy, he moved to Californiafor five years of public relations work inthe medical field. On a trip P)ast, he foundWestern Electric during his absence hadbuilt a manufacturing plant in Allentownthat was an industrial showplace of the Le-high Valley, and promptly decided hewanted to remain and join Western Elec-(Continued on page 185)
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>\ ..nminipi» New warehouse buildings and more efficient methods of handling telephone materials, such as this straddle stacker lifting a palletized load, are helping Western Electric overcome some of the effects of inflation. See the article he<^innin^ on page lyo Point of View Is the Vital Element in an InformationProgram which Will Give Telephone People the Facts TheyAre Entitled to K?iow about This Business Providing Employees withInformation They Want John JV. Cogswell The operator looked her chief rightin the eye and calmly asked, Sowhat? There was a pause, while the chiefoperator got adjusted to this abrupthitch in her presentation of theAnnual Report. Then she replied,Why, its important. Its the re-port card on our business. Our jobs,our benefits, our futures are wrappedup in it. But what can I do about it?What if I didnt like something?Would that make any difference? The chief operator tapped her pen-cil, troubled. There was an answer,but she couldnt put it into wordsq