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and Italy in the ratio of 10:10:6:3.3:3.3. It was considerably less than
Japan had hoped for. Hughes sent Yardley a letter of commendation.
During the conference, the Black Chamber had turned out more than
5,000 solutions and translations. Yardley nearly suffered a nervous
breakdown, and in February went to Arizona for four months to recover
his health. Several of his assistants had already had trouble in this
regard. One babbled incoherently; a girl dreamed of chasing around the
bedroom a bulldog that, when caught, had "code" written on its side;
another could lighten the enormous sack of pebbles that she carried in a
recurring nightmare only by finding a stone along a lonely beach that
exactly matched one of her pebbles, which she could then cast into the
sea. All three resigned.
Yardley's appropriation had been severely cut in 1924, and half the
staff had to be let go, reducing the force to about a dozen. Despite this,
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