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[Letting air out of tires so truck can enter tunnel]
[Letting air out of tires so truck can enter tunnel]

[Letting air out of tires so truck can enter tunnel]

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1951
ClassificationsCartoon
MediumCrayon and ink
DimensionsSheet: 7 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (19.7 x 32.4 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1190
“If anything happens to me I want you to have the two good tires on my old flivver.”
“If anything happens to me I want you to have the two good tires on my old flivver.”
Alan Dunn
1942
"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
"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
[Paper airplane flying out window of Air Force Academy]
[Paper airplane flying out window of Air Force Academy]
Alan Dunn
1958
"We're going to distribute the interest - You've been letting your midriff carry the whole load -"
"We're going to distribute the interest - You've been letting your midriff carry the whole load -"
Alan Dunn
1960
"Know What? I think he's letting me float against the dollar."
"Know What? I think he's letting me float against the dollar."
Alan Dunn
1973
[Soldier letting himself into hotel room]
[Soldier letting himself into hotel room]
Alan Dunn
1945
"Don't worry. It's perfectly safe if used as directed. Just don't breathe the vapor or spraymist, avoid contact with the skin, keep the mist from your eyes, do not spray near a fire or open flame, store under a hundred and twenty degrees and out of the sun's rays, keep the can out of reach of children, and do not incinerate or puncture."
"Don't worry. It's perfectly safe if used as directed. Just don't breathe the vapor or spraymist, avoid contact with the skin, keep the mist from your eyes, do not spray near a fire or open flame, store under a hundred and twenty degrees and out of the sun's rays, keep the can out of reach of children, and do not incinerate or puncture."
Alan Dunn
circa 1966
"We get it in the army so do not send no more of it in cans."
"We get it in the army so do not send no more of it in cans."
Alan Dunn
1942
"So you don't want any part of the world my generation has made? Well, I think I can do something about that, son."
"So you don't want any part of the world my generation has made? Well, I think I can do something about that, son."
Alan Dunn
1966
"No, it isn't civil rights. It's a flat tire."
"No, it isn't civil rights. It's a flat tire."
Alan Dunn
1971
[Grant "U.S. Royal" tire at side of highway]
[Grant "U.S. Royal" tire at side of highway]
Alan Dunn
circa 1965