Identifier: belltelephonemag08amerrich (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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formed forethought. As a general rule,new buildings are planned to provide for the telephoneneeds in their localities over a period of about eightyears, although this is subject to variation to meet spe-cific conditions. If provision were made for the needsof the very remote future, heavy carrying chargeswould have to be paid on account of excess space pro-vided. On the other hand, if the building were ade-quate only for immediate needs, there would be risk ofthe service being impaired and excessive building costsbeing incurred due to frequent alterations and enlarge-ments of the premises. Eight years is believed to rep-resent a sound balance between these alternatives. Most of the telephone buildings, except the verylargest and the smallest ones, are so constructed as topermit of future extension upward. Foundations andframework are built to carry the weight of additionalstories if and when required. In addition, several ofthe larger buildings—at San Francisco, at Newark, the (210)
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Administration Biilding of thf Ohio Bell Telephone Co., Cleveland, O.

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