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600 typewriters a day) in its 900-man factory at Groton, New York. More
than 140,000 were produced. (Ironically, the Italian Navy also used it.)
Hagelin's royalties ran into the millions of dollars. He became the first—
and the only—man to become a millionaire from cryp-tology.
12. Duel in the Ether: I
SHORTLY AFTER NOON on the tense 31st of August, 1939, the last day of
peace that the world was to know for six years, Swedish businessman
Birger Dahlerus met with
Hermann Goring at the Nazi leader's large and richly furnished town
house at 2 Leipzigerstrasse in Berlin. Dahlerus had been trying
desperately to avert the onrushing cataclysm of war by flying between
England and Germany as Goring's unofficial mediator. Britain had
pledged to aid Poland if Hitler attacked her, and, in an effort to stave off
actual warfare had proposed to both Germany and Poland that they
negotiate their differences directly. At a few minutes past one, as
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