Skip to main content Collections MenuExpandMy CollectionDownload 300 x 300 (Download)View PDF"At this rate pretty soon there ..."PreviousNext 300 x 300 (Download)"At this rate pretty soon there ..."Artist Alan Dunn (American, 1900 - 1974)Date1962ClassificationsCartoonMediumcrayon inkCredit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn BequestObject number1979.1436 Discover More "And then another wage boost followed by another rate hike, and so on, and infinitum. What more could one ask?"Alan Dunn1960" 'The anti-windfall tax is the excess of the amount due in 1942 or 1943, whichever is the lower, over the tax on the highest income of the years 1937, 1938, 1939, or 1940 plus $20,000 figured at 1942 Revenue Act rates'...Well, that much is clear."Alan Dunn1943Sign in store window "Buy now at the accepted 3.2% inflation rate the dollar won't buy anything at all by 1998".Alan Dunnc 1966"How much did you say we'd save under the new tax rate, dear?"Alan Dunn1945"How much did you say we'd save under the new tax rate, dear?"Alan Dunn1945"Peter darling, you can come back just as soon as I finish dressing."Alan Dunn1930No caption (movie marquee in China "Potemkin" coming soon)Alan Dunn1949No caption (Sign: "Opening Here Soon, A High Class Restaurant")Alan Dunn1945"Better make up your mind soon, son - Do you want to go to the college with the biggest cyclotron or the college with the best football team!"Alan Dunn1960Thus in 1930 - things were getting rough, and due to get rougher. The Era of Mergers stopped short; in their place was to come the 77-B reorganization. There was a loss of industrial mastery; a host of governmental alphabetical agencies would soon confront the business executive with a world he never made. But the technology of a newer era was all this time being slowly and inconspicuously laid down.Alan Dunn1959“I bet things are pretty quiet over at the Met.”Alan Dunn1959"The life here is pretty confining as I said before."Alan Dunn1941 Powered by eMuseum