Life — October 12, 1928 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Kansas saves Twenty Years An Advertisement of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company More than three hundred studies are being carried on constantly by the research, engineering and business staffs of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and the associ- ated companies of the Bell System to accomplish definite improvements in telephone service. In 1927 the number of local calls not completed on the first attempt was reduced by 5 per cent. This means the better handling of 200,- 000,000 calls a year. In 1926 the average time of handling toll and long distance calls was 2 minutes. In 1927 this aver- age was reduced to 1% minutes, with further improvements in voice transmission. On 6,820,000 long distance and toll calls made in Kansas in 1927 an average reduction of a minute and a half was made on each call — a total of twenty years saved. These more than three hundred special studies have as their goal definite improvements in local, toll and long distance service. It is the policy of the Bell System to furnish the best possible service at the least cost to the user. The American Telephone and Tele- graph Company accepts its respon- sibility for a nation-wide telephone service as a public trust. It is funda- mental in the policy of the company that all earnings after regular divi- dends and a surplus for financial security be used to give more and better service to the public. LINE AGAINST LINE Dead men tell no tales. Variety is the spice of life. Return good for evil. Manners make the man. Haste makes waste. Great oaks from little acorns grow. What's in a name? Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Count the cost. Murder will out. Shoemaker, stick to your last. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Fine feathers do not make fine birds. He who hesitates is lost. The mountain labored, and brought forth a mouse. Give a dog a bad name, and hang him. Out of sight, out of mind. Obey that impulse! A. G. C. T. 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