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"No, No, Miss Murphy- billion, not million!"
"No, No, Miss Murphy- billion, not million!"

"No, No, Miss Murphy- billion, not million!"

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1941
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon
DimensionsObject: 10 5/8 × 12 5/16 in. (27 × 31.3 cm) Sheet: 11 7/16 × 12 13/16 in. (29 × 32.5 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.0780
"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
"Would you care to know, dear, that your 'hazy morn of an enchanted day in May' is composed of six-tenths parts per million sulfur dioxide, two parts per million carbon monoxide, four parts per million hydrocarbons, three parts...."
"Would you care to know, dear, that your 'hazy morn of an enchanted day in May' is composed of six-tenths parts per million sulfur dioxide, two parts per million carbon monoxide, four parts per million hydrocarbons, three parts...."
Alan Dunn
1968
"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."
Alan Dunn
1955
No caption (woman putting Murphy bed back into wall)
No caption (woman putting Murphy bed back into wall)
Alan Dunn
c 1926
"Now can you visualize a billion dollars?"
"Now can you visualize a billion dollars?"
Alan Dunn
1941
"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
"I figure it would take a million astronauts ten million years to move us, stone by stone, to Planet Earth."
"I figure it would take a million astronauts ten million years to move us, stone by stone, to Planet Earth."
Alan Dunn
1970
"Tell me, exactly how much is one million dollars in real money?"
"Tell me, exactly how much is one million dollars in real money?"
Alan Dunn
1969
"If I promise not to let it go any further, tell me, how much is one million dollars in real money?"
"If I promise not to let it go any further, tell me, how much is one million dollars in real money?"
Alan Dunn
1969
"Gargoyles! Great guns, Mr. Sims, what do you expect for five million dollars!"
"Gargoyles! Great guns, Mr. Sims, what do you expect for five million dollars!"
Alan Dunn
1931
"All we need now is another million."
"All we need now is another million."
Alan Dunn
1931