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Bell System structure
Central Office construction
end of Bell System
Bell System growth
1975: transparent phone
priceless
public trust
useful & universal
weavers of speech
good neighbors
civilization
1956: Bell System people
1955: baby
1957: payphones are ubiquitous
1924: Bell System "army"
1938: special services
1928: Pony Express
1915: 8.5 million phones
1953: lineman poem with Rockwell illustratration
1963: free repairs
1953: Western Electric (phone booth)
1931: low cost of local service
1929: investment in technology
1928: working together
1916: stand and wait
1928: public respons-
ibility
1913: telephone doors
1926: 50 years
1931: telephone service cost
1968: get to know Western Electric
1972: gender neutrality
1955: teletype-
writer
1930: giants out of the earth
1930: expansion
1930: progress
1950: 900,000 stockholders
1947: home town folks
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