Summary

This section opens in August of 1943 when, as Mundy observes, Arlington Hall "was like a start-up that had received a big dose of venture capital funding and needed to scale up overnight" (230). Due to the dire need for workers, this is when the Army began recruiting school teachers and young women from the southern states. The recruiters just “vacuumed up women” (232). Mundy describes recruiting efforts as well as provides descriptions of the various women who arrived in Washington, D.C. eager to see what the government had in store for them. Additionally she describes the growth, and in some instances overcrowding, of Arlington Hall. While the top code-breakers were deeply satisfied with the work they were doing, this sentiment did not ring true at all levels of the organization. Thus Mundy titles Chapter Nine, “It was Only Human to Complain” (230). People took issue...