Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (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
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degree yetthoroughly stable. Moreover, theycould not be rough diamonds; the jobcalled for men who were articulateand agreeable. On the whole, be-coming a field engineer was hardly amatter of following the line of leastresistance for these men, most ofthem family heads in their 30s andearly 40s. Into this rather high-voltage oc-cupation came 132 men directly from 66 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING within the Bell System—22 per centof the total group. Only the radioindustry contributed a slightly largernumber. There were, of course, menfrom the Bell Laboratories, fromLong Lines, and from various partsof the Western itself; but the bulkof the Bell people came from 15 as-sociated telephone companies. The Bell System could not beginto supply the full requirements,however. The burden of this man-hunting job fell upon the Bird-DogDepartment, as the Forces person-nel organization became popularlyknown. Led by a former generalplant employment supervisor of amid-west telephone company who had
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At the Whippany radio laboratory of Bell Laboratories, where Western Electricmaintained one section of its F. E, F. training schools, a student engineer works with the antenna of a Naval radar Some companies were better ablethan others to spare their valuableengineers and specialists during themanpower shortage. All of them,however, were glad to cooperate inevery way possible with the Field En-ginering Force search for additionalfield engineers to meet the increasingdemands of the Army and Navy. himself been a field engineer, a groupof ten former field engineers spenttheir time hunting out prospects inevery section of the United States forthe expansion of the Force. Theyfound their recruits in 39 states, andeven a handful from Canada and theBritish West Indies. The roster saw virtually every 1946 Western Electric Experts with the Armed Forces 67 major American technical school, col-lege and university represented in themembership. Naturally, electricalengineering degrees predominated

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