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No caption (store window sign "Buy Now! Last Chance to Buy at Low Prices Before the Recession is Finally Over!")
No caption (store window sign "Buy Now! Last Chance to Buy at Low Prices Before the Recession is Finally Over!")

No caption (store window sign "Buy Now! Last Chance to Buy at Low Prices Before the Recession is Finally Over!")

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1961
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 8 1/4 × 8 11/16 in. (20.9 × 22 cm) Sheet: 8 1/4 × 8 11/16 in. (20.9 × 22 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1460
Sign in store window "Buy now at the accepted 3.2% inflation rate the dollar won't buy anything at all by 1998".
Sign in store window "Buy now at the accepted 3.2% inflation rate the dollar won't buy anything at all by 1998".
Alan Dunn
c 1966
No caption (sign in supermarket window: "All Merchandise Marked Down To Last Week's Prices")
No caption (sign in supermarket window: "All Merchandise Marked Down To Last Week's Prices")
Alan Dunn
1969
No caption (sign in auto show room "You Ought to Buy Now")
No caption (sign in auto show room "You Ought to Buy Now")
Alan Dunn
1958
"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
No caption (sign in bargain shop "14.3% Off All Prices.")
No caption (sign in bargain shop "14.3% Off All Prices.")
Alan Dunn
1967
No Caption (sign in store window "Only 70 Shopping Days Before Easter")
No Caption (sign in store window "Only 70 Shopping Days Before Easter")
Alan Dunn
1950
No caption (The 4th Avenue lunch bar changes name-"No Rise in Prices!")
No caption (The 4th Avenue lunch bar changes name-"No Rise in Prices!")
Alan Dunn
1959
No caption ("Whistler's Father" displayed in a liquor store window, with a sign above reading "Remember Father's Day June 21st") )
No caption ("Whistler's Father" displayed in a liquor store window, with a sign above reading "Remember Father's Day June 21st")
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Alan Dunn
1970
No Caption (Fur-store window and sign painter)
No Caption (Fur-store window and sign painter)
Alan Dunn
1951
No caption (Prices Slashed!)
No caption (Prices Slashed!)
Alan Dunn
1939
"Look here! Holding the line on prices for structural steel isn't the same thing as twenty cents for cup custard."
"Look here! Holding the line on prices for structural steel isn't the same thing as twenty cents for cup custard."
Alan Dunn
c 1966
72. The Store of “Fair Prices”. With our fair prices/ We never cheat you—/ But my clerks are astute,/ And know a trick or two.
72. The Store of “Fair Prices”. With our fair prices/ We never cheat you—/ But my clerks are astute,/ And know a trick or two.
José Guadalupe Posada
1947