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"You have to buy two canaries, ma'am. It's Petrillo."
"You have to buy two canaries, ma'am. It's Petrillo."

"You have to buy two canaries, ma'am. It's Petrillo."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1946
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 8 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (22.2 × 29.2 cm) Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (22.2 × 29.2 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1020
"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
"It's ten minutes after four bells, ma'am. Want some tea?"
"It's ten minutes after four bells, ma'am. Want some tea?"
Alan Dunn
1948
"You can kill two birds with this one. It's good literature and it's dirty."
"You can kill two birds with this one. It's good literature and it's dirty."
Alan Dunn
1959
"Don't you worry about me, Ma'am. I've been in the business too long to have any feelings left."
"Don't you worry about me, Ma'am. I've been in the business too long to have any feelings left."
Alan Dunn
1933
"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
Paris has its good points, Ma'am - but you ain't lived till you've seen Dallas.
Paris has its good points, Ma'am - but you ain't lived till you've seen Dallas.
Charles E. Martin
1955
"One belief is that every person is inhabited by a spirit, or ko, which goes travelling while the human body is asleep. If a man should be awakened suddenly - so the belief is- the Ko might not have time to get back into its body and would get even by going around causing trouble. So the people believe a man should be allowed to sleep until he wakes up of his own accord." U.S. Army Pocket Guide to New Caledonia.
"One belief is that every person is inhabited by a spirit, or ko, which goes travelling while the human body is asleep. If a man should be awakened suddenly - so the belief is- the Ko might not have time to get back into its body and would get even by going around causing trouble. So the people believe a man should be allowed to sleep until he wakes up of his own accord." U.S. Army Pocket Guide to New Caledonia.
Alan Dunn
1943
"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
"There's nothing really complicated about it: if you live in a strategic-base area you come under the supervision of the World Security Council and its military staff, where as if you live in a trusteeship area you are governed by a trusteeship council which, like the economic and social council, serves under the authority of the General Assembly."
"There's nothing really complicated about it: if you live in a strategic-base area you come under the supervision of the World Security Council and its military staff, where as if you live in a trusteeship area you are governed by a trusteeship council which, like the economic and social council, serves under the authority of the General Assembly."
Alan Dunn
1945
"It's for you, sir."
"It's for you, sir."
Alan Dunn
1943
"You are now on the celebrated Via Appia, oldest of the Roman consular roads. Started in 312 B.C. by Appius Claudius the Blind, it had it's beginning at the Porta Capena in the Servian Wall at Rome..."
"You are now on the celebrated Via Appia, oldest of the Roman consular roads. Started in 312 B.C. by Appius Claudius the Blind, it had it's beginning at the Porta Capena in the Servian Wall at Rome..."
Alan Dunn
1944
"For heaven's sakes, if you'll only read that note I handed you, you'll find it's a simple request for a statement of account!"
"For heaven's sakes, if you'll only read that note I handed you, you'll find it's a simple request for a statement of account!"
Alan Dunn
1959