Word: grifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later, back in New York. One night in a Manhattan delicatessen, he met some songwriters. After Baruch, they looked to Billy like "a buncha dumb-heads"-until somebody told him they made 40 and 50 grand a year. "Just like that," says Rose, "I decided that this was the grift...
...therefore, Archer Vande-grift's tiny patch of warfare is destiny. It can mean the difference between vigorous offense and weary defense in the Pacific, perhaps between beating the Japs in two years...
...Logistics. The Pacific war is one of logistics, and so Archer Vande-grift's most constant worry has been about supply. At no time has he had quite enough of anything...