This advertisement is from 1951. The text of the ad is reprinted below.

Dial telephone equipment for Bell System getting final check at a Western Electric factory.

BUSY... behind the lines

Today, telephone lines are defense lines. We're hard at work making more telephone equipment to carry the calls that speed America's production, direct civilian defense, and guide the Armed Forces.

One big reason why America has dependable telephone service today is that Western Electric, the manufacturing unit of the Bell System, has worked hand in hand over the years with Bell Telephone Laboratories who design the equipment and the telephone companies who operate it.

In addition, we're busily applying our long Bell System experience to making special electronic and communications equipment needed by the Armed Forces for the protection of this country.

Western Electric
A UNIT OF THE BELL SYSTEM SINCE 1882

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