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"Another billion rubles! I wish we hadn't started this keeping-up-with-the-Joneses."
"Another billion rubles! I wish we hadn't started this keeping-up-with-the-Joneses."

"Another billion rubles! I wish we hadn't started this keeping-up-with-the-Joneses."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1955
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 9 13/16 × 7 5/16 in. (25 × 18.5 cm) Sheet: 9 13/16 × 7 5/16 in. (25 × 18.5 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.2210
"Here we are spending billions for the moon, and what I need is a new fur coat."
"Here we are spending billions for the moon, and what I need is a new fur coat."
Alan Dunn
1967
"May I suggest Senator, that perhaps we should offer the whole five and a half billion dollars to Mr. Stalin to buy off Communism itself?"
"May I suggest Senator, that perhaps we should offer the whole five and a half billion dollars to Mr. Stalin to buy off Communism itself?"
Alan Dunn
1948
"Sometimes I wish we didn't have so damn many stockholders."
"Sometimes I wish we didn't have so damn many stockholders."
Alan Dunn
1956
"Men, we're all a part of the greatest amphibious operation in history, and, believe me, this is a scene we here topside will never forget. I wish you fellows could see it - the sky dark with planes, our planes, and the water dotted to the horizon with craft of every description..."
"Men, we're all a part of the greatest amphibious operation in history, and, believe me, this is a scene we here topside will never forget. I wish you fellows could see it - the sky dark with planes, our planes, and the water dotted to the horizon with craft of every description..."
Alan Dunn
1944
"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
Currency, 500 Russian Rubles
Currency, 500 Russian Rubles
1912
"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
"Another modern rifle arrived today so I guess things are speeding up in the defense program."
"Another modern rifle arrived today so I guess things are speeding up in the defense program."
Alan Dunn
1941
"That only leaves me ten dollars for the permanent, so hadn't I better take the step-ins?"
"That only leaves me ten dollars for the permanent, so hadn't I better take the step-ins?"
Alan Dunn
1928
"You told her, Gus - Don't bore Sylvia and eat your potatoes! Naomi, I ought to warn you there's ice cream - wine, dear, Naomi and George have no wine - I must apologize about the plumbing - I do wish the neighbors wouldn't go to the john while I'm giving a dinner - more limas, dear? - Limas, Sylvia? - Gus, more limas? - Duffy, do go on about Perry and what were his rubbers doing in the ice box -."
"You told her, Gus - Don't bore Sylvia and eat your potatoes! Naomi, I ought to warn you there's ice cream - wine, dear, Naomi and George have no wine - I must apologize about the plumbing - I do wish the neighbors wouldn't go to the john while I'm giving a dinner - more limas, dear? - Limas, Sylvia? - Gus, more limas? - Duffy, do go on about Perry and what were his rubbers doing in the ice box -."
Alan Dunn
1948
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“I wish they wood train me for Pago Pago as I like it from what I seen in the movies.”
Alan Dunn
1942
"She goes right on just as if Paris hadn't stabilized the neckline! Trouble is Paris can't police it."
"She goes right on just as if Paris hadn't stabilized the neckline! Trouble is Paris can't police it."
Alan Dunn
1960