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"The main thing is to handle them with tact. Let them think they invented gun-powder."
"The main thing is to handle them with tact. Let them think they invented gun-powder."

"The main thing is to handle them with tact. Let them think they invented gun-powder."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1949
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 7 3/4 × 11 7/8 in. (19.7 × 30.2 cm) Sheet: 7 3/4 × 11 7/8 in. (19.7 × 30.2 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1152
"Before we go any further with this profit-incentive idea, I think we should decide whether or not we invented it."
"Before we go any further with this profit-incentive idea, I think we should decide whether or not we invented it."
Alan Dunn
1964
"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
"A lot of boys even took their jallopies with them thinking they could use them in the army."
"A lot of boys even took their jallopies with them thinking they could use them in the army."
Alan Dunn
1942
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"but I gess Gerneral Grant didn't wear them so the Army don't recognize them yet."
Alan Dunn
1941
"If I had to, I would shoot," the officer said. "It's best not to think about it. Anyway, most cops never have a reason to shoot in their whole career. Let's hope I'm one of them."
"If I had to, I would shoot," the officer said. "It's best not to think about it. Anyway, most cops never have a reason to shoot in their whole career. Let's hope I'm one of them."
Leonard Freed
1976
"Isn't it enough for them to have spoiled the Democratic Convention?"
"Isn't it enough for them to have spoiled the Democratic Convention?"
Alan Dunn
1968
"We're really a three-car family, but two of them have been recalled."
"We're really a three-car family, but two of them have been recalled."
Alan Dunn
1969
"Who's going to tell them that utopia is still in the talk stage?"
"Who's going to tell them that utopia is still in the talk stage?"
Alan Dunn
1970
"I got syko-animalized again the other day in one of them army tests and I flunk on so many questions I bet it cost the army a thousand sets of encyclopedias."
"I got syko-animalized again the other day in one of them army tests and I flunk on so many questions I bet it cost the army a thousand sets of encyclopedias."
Alan Dunn
1941
"Please don't send me no more packages unless I have asked for them."
"Please don't send me no more packages unless I have asked for them."
Alan Dunn
1942
"I am now soar because I can't get right in there and battle them Rising Sons of you know what."
"I am now soar because I can't get right in there and battle them Rising Sons of you know what."
Alan Dunn
1942
"Don't eat fruit or vegetables unless they have been cooked or unless you have peeled them yourself." U.S. Army Pocket Guide to India"."
"Don't eat fruit or vegetables unless they have been cooked or unless you have peeled them yourself." U.S. Army Pocket Guide to India"."
Alan Dunn
1943