within two decades western electric lets not only the principle supplier of telephone equipment at the united states but also through the pioneering aid of f r wells had established this new medium of communication in many other nations of the world yes i guess and maybe send that we've grown or wind stature but we've merely scratched the surface we don't need much more production than our present capacity if we're to keep pace with mr wells ambitions abroad i suppose so but size itself is not a goal that day we first met the bell people some twenty five years ago it was not size it was impressive it was small but we made a better telephone gave better service and every step since has been directed to that objective that's why we shoulder the job of installing our equipment ourselves to make certain that it delivers its best service but took on some headaches too as our installers occasionally remind us the answer to that has been easy nor was it easy to assume the supply contracts were more and more telephone companies but by shouldering the responsibility for purchasing and for warehousing distribution and repair of equipment at our branch houses we've given better service we say the telephone companies and the public a great deal of and when you stop to think of it that's quite a commentary on american business here were two concerns that a few years before had been rivals on the same development yet now they were cooperating long range operation to invest millions today to be paid back in nickels and dimes over the years ahead in these times on range vision isn't the best collateral banks can foreclose the mortgage on social pro but there must be someone there if that is for western electric to pledge itself to support those companies and that of course involves a risk that's a very grave risk but when that's the way it has to be the telephone companies must not be killed off barton we know how you feel so we're taking that gamble now we stand or fall with the telephone company and in the right thing we've come a long way since those day and every  western electric system of radio broadcasting was in operation and it almost no time to learn to expect the finest of the world's entertainment delivered to our living room nine hundred twenty six silent movies came to li the hard way but through the years came progress in the ways of progress love radio research steered into definite channels and scientific exploration replace the hit or miss methods of chance and still have the thousands of skilled installations and complete the process of manufacture in central offices all across the nation and in twenty nine of the principal cities of the country distributing headquarters w linking the nation together network of supply a giant production and service institution designed and geared to the performance of a single job supplying the needs of the b that was our peace time job a job on which we of western elected and concentrated with a single purpose for three generations and then overnight we were we were not still fresh and better are the memories of those days racing against time as we train civilians to be fighting men the desperate demands for a fight with him and he western electric men and women remember where and from the start i first assignment was communication maintaining the nerve system arsenal of democracy communication directing the battle of production carrying the endless tactics of turning out ships and planes and tanks and  there are times please understand we at home don't pretend to be here compared with the performance of our fighting hours a day on the job but only the fighting men know the full extent get complex equipment that goes into modern central offices must be made in great quantities installed and interconnected into the system throughout the country much of it on life what we've been making for this means another huge job for western electric and it's a job that gets done all right yet western electric going up on it years of experience new skills acquired during the war and its great tradition of service in medium agencies will do its part to say that no american home waiting for a bell telephone service