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[Boy scouts using boat motor to start fire with out matches]
[Boy scouts using boat motor to start fire with out matches]

[Boy scouts using boat motor to start fire with out matches]

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1952
ClassificationsCartoon
MediumCrayon and ink
DimensionsSheet: 9 x 11 1/2 in. (22.9 x 29.2 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1211
"...and a box of old-fashioned wooden matches that you can strike on the seat of your pants."
"...and a box of old-fashioned wooden matches that you can strike on the seat of your pants."
Mary Petty
1936
"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
"Somehow I didn't connect with his world of experience -", "Why not start the day with a degreaser.", "That's a lot to ask from royal jelly.", "And who did I see coming out of Slenderella."
"Somehow I didn't connect with his world of experience -", "Why not start the day with a degreaser.", "That's a lot to ask from royal jelly.", "And who did I see coming out of Slenderella."
Alan Dunn
1960
"One of McAuliffe's boys - He wants his loan to start a nut shop."
"One of McAuliffe's boys - He wants his loan to start a nut shop."
Alan Dunn
1945
[1937 Motor Boat Show]
[1937 Motor Boat Show]
Alan Dunn
1936
"It says, "Founded in 1752, Brookfield lived through the Revolution and the Civil War. In the late spring of 1937 it was wiped out by a ten-lane motor highway."
"It says, "Founded in 1752, Brookfield lived through the Revolution and the Civil War. In the late spring of 1937 it was wiped out by a ten-lane motor highway."
Alan Dunn
1938
"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
"O.K., men, hop to it! The sooner we start, the sooner we start, the sooner we finish."
"O.K., men, hop to it! The sooner we start, the sooner we start, the sooner we finish."
Alan Dunn
1951
Rush's Lancers. Franklin's Advance Scouts
Rush's Lancers. Franklin's Advance Scouts
Winslow Homer
1886
Two of Sheridan's Scouts
Two of Sheridan's Scouts
Winslow Homer
1887
Russian shell bursting on the hill in the gap between the first and second armies near scouts,--Closing in on Kuropatkin
Russian shell bursting on the hill in the gap between the first and second armies near scouts,--Closing in on Kuropatkin
H.C. White Co.
circa 1905
“What’s more - nothing to oil - no burnt-out motors - no moving parts to fix - no service charges.”
“What’s more - nothing to oil - no burnt-out motors - no moving parts to fix - no service charges.”
Alan Dunn
1966