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"We got it cheap because it's outside the fifty-mile television radius."
"We got it cheap because it's outside the fifty-mile television radius."

"We got it cheap because it's outside the fifty-mile television radius."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1939
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon
DimensionsObject: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm) Sheet: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.0683
"Oh, we're reading, I'm O.K., You're O.K. and I guess we are O.K., but I thinks its because of the martinis not the book."
"Oh, we're reading, I'm O.K., You're O.K. and I guess we are O.K., but I thinks its because of the martinis not the book."
Alan Dunn
1972
"I can let you have Apartment 23-A cheap. It's supposed to be haunted."
"I can let you have Apartment 23-A cheap. It's supposed to be haunted."
Alan Dunn
1931
"It's true, sir, that the State Department let me go, but that was solely because of incompetence."
"It's true, sir, that the State Department let me go, but that was solely because of incompetence."
Alan Dunn
1950
"Poison - that's the considerate way - It's gas I don't like - refrigerator switch sets it off and it blows - injures maybe fifty people - And jumping, that's messy - No, give me poison cases any day."
"Poison - that's the considerate way - It's gas I don't like - refrigerator switch sets it off and it blows - injures maybe fifty people - And jumping, that's messy - No, give me poison cases any day."
Alan Dunn
1948
"Temperature sixty-five degrees, humidity fifty-nine percent, winds out of the south at five miles an hour, barometer rising, and the dollar steady."
"Temperature sixty-five degrees, humidity fifty-nine percent, winds out of the south at five miles an hour, barometer rising, and the dollar steady."
Alan Dunn
1971
"Why shouldn't I use it? There's a good fifty miles left in these tires."
"Why shouldn't I use it? There's a good fifty miles left in these tires."
Alan Dunn
1942
"It's O.K. on nitrates, phosphorus, potash, and lime. My guess is we've got a boron deficiency."
"It's O.K. on nitrates, phosphorus, potash, and lime. My guess is we've got a boron deficiency."
Alan Dunn
1949
"Here's one near Rye for our kind of money, but it's got thirty-seven rooms."
"Here's one near Rye for our kind of money, but it's got thirty-seven rooms."
Alan Dunn
1949
"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
"Isn't this something we don't believe in?", "It's one Hell of a mess.", "Cheer up, there's a light ahead.", "Don't they know who we are?"
"Isn't this something we don't believe in?", "It's one Hell of a mess.", "Cheer up, there's a light ahead.", "Don't they know who we are?"
Alan Dunn
1960
"It's simply teeming! Now we won't have to drink Lake Erie!"
"It's simply teeming! Now we won't have to drink Lake Erie!"
Alan Dunn
c 1965
"Now, when we take three hundred millilitres of a compound containing hydrogen and oxygen in a ratio of two to one and add three millilitres of an eight-hundredths percent stannous-fluoride solution, and fifty millilitres of treated industrial wastes and solids, we get drinking water."
"Now, when we take three hundred millilitres of a compound containing hydrogen and oxygen in a ratio of two to one and add three millilitres of an eight-hundredths percent stannous-fluoride solution, and fifty millilitres of treated industrial wastes and solids, we get drinking water."
Alan Dunn
c 1965