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"Our Bureau of Standards gives it a creep-stress rating of 1.036."
"Our Bureau of Standards gives it a creep-stress rating of 1.036."

"Our Bureau of Standards gives it a creep-stress rating of 1.036."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1938
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon
DimensionsObject: 14 3/4 × 12 15/16 in. (37.5 × 32.8 cm) Sheet: 14 3/4 × 12 15/16 in. (37.5 × 32.8 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1902
"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
"Frankly, Miss Plackett, you have a slight overlapping of the lunar returns, but cheer up and this goes for all you Capricorns. You have Saturn conjunct Mercury, which deepens the mind, and you have Venus, the love planet in trine with Pluto, which really gives you the go-ahead provided, of course, the new earth satellite doesn't come along and gum things up."
"Frankly, Miss Plackett, you have a slight overlapping of the lunar returns, but cheer up and this goes for all you Capricorns. You have Saturn conjunct Mercury, which deepens the mind, and you have Venus, the love planet in trine with Pluto, which really gives you the go-ahead provided, of course, the new earth satellite doesn't come along and gum things up."
Alan Dunn
1957
"Yes, dinner at four-thirty. It gives you a nice long evening."
"Yes, dinner at four-thirty. It gives you a nice long evening."
Alan Dunn
1939
"Well, she carried out her end of our suicide pack. Luckily, I was on Rocky Mountain Standard Time."
"Well, she carried out her end of our suicide pack. Luckily, I was on Rocky Mountain Standard Time."
Alan Dunn
1933
"Sure I can give you examples. One, our new proton synchrontron is bigger thant theirs, two our ballistic missile program is ahead of theirs; and three, we have better mail service."
"Sure I can give you examples. One, our new proton synchrontron is bigger thant theirs, two our ballistic missile program is ahead of theirs; and three, we have better mail service."
Alan Dunn
1957
"Nixon's scheduled a photographic flyby of our planet for someone in the seventies. That doesn't give us much chance to spruce up."
"Nixon's scheduled a photographic flyby of our planet for someone in the seventies. That doesn't give us much chance to spruce up."
Alan Dunn
1970
"I wish our friends wouldn't strain so to give us something we didn't already have."
"I wish our friends wouldn't strain so to give us something we didn't already have."
Alan Dunn
1971
"You might stress the fact that there is absolutely no charge for admission."
"You might stress the fact that there is absolutely no charge for admission."
Alan Dunn
1944
No caption (Wide World Travel Bureau)
No caption (Wide World Travel Bureau)
Alan Dunn
1942
"Municipal Building Inspector, sir -- wants to look us over for stress and strain."
"Municipal Building Inspector, sir -- wants to look us over for stress and strain."
Alan Dunn
1931
No caption (New York City Bureau of Water Supply meeting.)
No caption (New York City Bureau of Water Supply meeting.)
Alan Dunn
c 1965
"Then his father paid me ten thousand dollars never to see him again. It sort of gives you back your faith in men, don't it?"
"Then his father paid me ten thousand dollars never to see him again. It sort of gives you back your faith in men, don't it?"
Mary Petty
1931