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personnel serving under theater commanders overseas.) Nevertheless,
the personnel supply never caught up to the demand. In April, 1944, for
example, the agency had more than 1,000 civilian positions empty.
But its growth soon made more space necessary. Like the Navy, it
found a former girls' school ideal for its purposes. During the summer of
1942, it moved from the Munitions Building to Arlington Hall, whose
brick buildings stood on 58 wooded acres fronting on Glebe Road in
Arlington, Virginia, about three miles from downtown Washington and
away from the eyes of enemy agents. The agency soon outgrew even this,
and in the late fall of 1942 began expanding into Vint Hill Farms, an old
estate in the Virginia horse country about 50 miles from Washington.
Giant intercepting towers and half a dozen ugly barracks-like buildings
soon disfigured the lovely Blue Ridge foothills, and here, in rooms filled
with desks with tilted tops,
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