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"Sure I can give you examples. One, our new proton synchrontron is bigger thant theirs, two our ballistic missile program is ahead of theirs; and three, we have better mail service."
"Sure I can give you examples. One, our new proton synchrontron is bigger thant theirs, two our ballistic missile program is ahead of theirs; and three, we have better mail service."

"Sure I can give you examples. One, our new proton synchrontron is bigger thant theirs, two our ballistic missile program is ahead of theirs; and three, we have better mail service."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1957
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 10 × 11 1/8 in. (25.4 × 28.3 cm) Sheet: 10 × 11 1/8 in. (25.4 × 28.3 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1284
"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
"You see, we have to build our navy up to what the other nations said they would build theirs up to, if we built ours up."
"You see, we have to build our navy up to what the other nations said they would build theirs up to, if we built ours up."
Mary Petty
1934
Parents & Theirs
Parents & Theirs
Susan Jenny Emshwiller
1979
"Frankly, Miss Plackett, you have a slight overlapping of the lunar returns, but cheer up and this goes for all you Capricorns. You have Saturn conjunct Mercury, which deepens the mind, and you have Venus, the love planet in trine with Pluto, which really gives you the go-ahead provided, of course, the new earth satellite doesn't come along and gum things up."
"Frankly, Miss Plackett, you have a slight overlapping of the lunar returns, but cheer up and this goes for all you Capricorns. You have Saturn conjunct Mercury, which deepens the mind, and you have Venus, the love planet in trine with Pluto, which really gives you the go-ahead provided, of course, the new earth satellite doesn't come along and gum things up."
Alan Dunn
1957
A banana split has one banana, three lumps of ice milk, crushed pineapple, strawberries, chocolate syrup and whipped cream. In two days of our forty-nine cent special, we sold five thousand splits. Businessmen want a pretty face at the counter and counter girls have personality to deal with the public.
A banana split has one banana, three lumps of ice milk, crushed pineapple, strawberries, chocolate syrup and whipped cream. In two days of our forty-nine cent special, we sold five thousand splits. Businessmen want a pretty face at the counter and counter girls have personality to deal with the public.
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2006
"I wish our friends wouldn't strain so to give us something we didn't already have."
"I wish our friends wouldn't strain so to give us something we didn't already have."
Alan Dunn
1971
Do you want our 24 hour service which takes 2 days or our quickie one hour service which takes four hours?
Do you want our 24 hour service which takes 2 days or our quickie one hour service which takes four hours?
Joseph G. Farris
1962
"Have you heard of our Pen-of-the-Month Club? Every month we send you our judges choice of the latest ball-point pens."
"Have you heard of our Pen-of-the-Month Club? Every month we send you our judges choice of the latest ball-point pens."
Alan Dunn
1946
"Our competitors got out an onion soup with noodles instead of cheese, but by gad, we'll beat them with our new model if we have to crap every machine in the place!"
"Our competitors got out an onion soup with noodles instead of cheese, but by gad, we'll beat them with our new model if we have to crap every machine in the place!"
Kindl (Alan Dunn)
1931
"You can admire generally but don't admire one object especially, for then courtesy requires your host to give it to you." U.S. Army Pocket Guide to China.
"You can admire generally but don't admire one object especially, for then courtesy requires your host to give it to you." U.S. Army Pocket Guide to China.
Alan Dunn
1943
“I’ll show you how we spend our time,” said the homicide investigator, fingering a stack of cards with photos of wanted people. “What we do is mostly paper work. We show the photos in the neighborhood and hope someone will put the finger on a suspect.”
“I’ll show you how we spend our time,” said the homicide investigator, fingering a stack of cards with photos of wanted people. “What we do is mostly paper work. We show the photos in the neighborhood and hope someone will put the finger on a suspect.”
Leonard Freed
1976
"We hope you don't mind, but we want to show our scientists back home a real earthling."
"We hope you don't mind, but we want to show our scientists back home a real earthling."
Alan Dunn
1967