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"Check your oil and water, sir?"
"Check your oil and water, sir?"

"Check your oil and water, sir?"

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1936
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon
DimensionsObject: 13 1/4 × 13 5/8 in. (33.7 × 34.6 cm) Sheet: 13 1/4 × 13 5/8 in. (33.7 × 34.6 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.0574
"Attention, motorists! This is your new aerial traffic check reporting. Situation hopless that is all."
"Attention, motorists! This is your new aerial traffic check reporting. Situation hopless that is all."
Alan Dunn
1958
"Your son, sir. He wants you to drop whatever you're doing and make a new world."
"Your son, sir. He wants you to drop whatever you're doing and make a new world."
Alan Dunn
1968
"The vice-president, sir, wants your O.K. on two ham and one combination on rye from Liggett's."
"The vice-president, sir, wants your O.K. on two ham and one combination on rye from Liggett's."
Alan Dunn
1931
"Sir, this is your official car."
"Sir, this is your official car."
Alan Dunn
1974
No caption (the personification of Justice standing on bathroom scales and lifting her blindfold to check her weight);
No caption (the personification of Justice standing on bathroom scales and lifting her blindfold to check her weight);
Alan Dunn
1948
"Now look - International has a net quick of $15 per share. Its market price is $10, book is $36.65. Our net quick is $8; our book is$22, and at market we are selling for $25. So to start with we offer them one share of ours for two of theirs. That's five bucks premium. Can they turn it down? So they turn it down. Then we say, O.K., we'll buy the assets. We'll give you $1 million for your plant, which stands at $3,900,000 net. That wipes out all the water, gives them a fine tax carry-back. Then we give them 80 per cent of net inventory and accounts receivable - that's another $4 million. Another nice tax loss for them. So we pay 'em $5 million. There's nothing complicated about this except - say, where do we get the turn-around money"
"Now look - International has a net quick of $15 per share. Its market price is $10, book is $36.65. Our net quick is $8; our book is$22, and at market we are selling for $25. So to start with we offer them one share of ours for two of theirs. That's five bucks premium. Can they turn it down? So they turn it down. Then we say, O.K., we'll buy the assets. We'll give you $1 million for your plant, which stands at $3,900,000 net. That wipes out all the water, gives them a fine tax carry-back. Then we give them 80 per cent of net inventory and accounts receivable - that's another $4 million. Another nice tax loss for them. So we pay 'em $5 million. There's nothing complicated about this except - say, where do we get the turn-around money"
Alan Dunn
1954
"I wouldn't write a check to a Chinese laundry if I were you - what will the bank think?"
"I wouldn't write a check to a Chinese laundry if I were you - what will the bank think?"
Kindl (Alan Dunn)
1931
"Dinner Friday at the Smiths', in the Hamptons. They're O.K. on heating oil. How are we on gas?"
"Dinner Friday at the Smiths', in the Hamptons. They're O.K. on heating oil. How are we on gas?"
Alan Dunn
1973
"I gess you think that maps are just things put out by the Standard Oil Company for advertising."
"I gess you think that maps are just things put out by the Standard Oil Company for advertising."
Alan Dunn
1941
"Dinner Friday at the Smith's, in the Hamptons. They're O.K. on heating oil. How are we on gas?"
"Dinner Friday at the Smith's, in the Hamptons. They're O.K. on heating oil. How are we on gas?"
Alan Dunn
1973
"Price support money - soil bank payments for what I don't plant - power-line lease - oil and gas pipeline right-of-way fees - Best damn farm in the country."
"Price support money - soil bank payments for what I don't plant - power-line lease - oil and gas pipeline right-of-way fees - Best damn farm in the country."
Alan Dunn
1960
I have a message for you here somewhere, sir, from field headquarters."
I have a message for you here somewhere, sir, from field headquarters."
Alan Dunn
1943