Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fleets of allied or neutral nations. According to last week's estimates (from official British admissions of sinkings), 4,300,000 of these tons have been lost. Replacements (newly built, seized from the Axis or purchased from the U. S.) were estimated at only 1,650,000 tons. Net loss: 2,650,000 tons, with possibly another 1,000,000 tons damaged and laid up for repairs...
...American institution, home-life in New York. From dawn till dusk this knee-pant Trojan wages attrition warfare against the temptations to which his weaker-willed parents are subjected: a sheik-like artist in the case of his portraitgenic mother, and a dove-like matron innocently laying the net for his father. Lily Cahill, la mere; Jay Fassett, le pere, Eddie Nugent, le beau de L'arte;--these and the remainder of the cast are all quite adequate. But it is Monsieur Thomas, L'enfant terrible par excellence, who provides the freshness and snap "Your Loving Son" so badly needs...
...inspired hunch-playing was responsible, Pall Mall had struck a bonanza. It sold 4,000,000,000 cigarets in 1940, seven times its former volume. Last week Profit-Maker Hill, pleased as spiked punch, translated this into dollars for his stockholders. To American Tobacco's 1940 net of $28,311,783 (up 7% over 1939), American Cigarette and Cigar had contributed $1,458,107 (up 276% over 1939). The subsidiary's Pall Mall division had changed a $780,902 loss in 1939 into a $521,416 profit...
Upstart Frank Riggio, with a new plant in Brooklyn and $175,000 in machinery, sold 800,000,000 Regents, a 300% increase over 1939 and enough (even with Regents' high-cost cardboard box) to net him a profit. But George Hill was by now far ahead. His two entries, Tareyton and Pall Mall, blanketed 70% of the new market...
There he sets up housekeeping with an island mate (throughout the tale Ben knocks the women over like duckpins and rather enjoys saying so) and becomes something of a chieftain. By the time he leaves, he has picked up pearls which, in London, net him all the King's Pardoning he needs, and thousands of pounds sterling into the bargain. The ending is technically happy but, like the treatment throughout, perceptibly tougher and more intelligent than such stories generally bother to be. Indeed Benjamin Blake turns out to be not merely an engaging adventure piece but an articulate tract...