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"Now, in line with the new, conciliatory approach, we break every window in their embassy, but we don't set fire to it."
"Now, in line with the new, conciliatory approach, we break every window in their embassy, but we don't set fire to it."

"Now, in line with the new, conciliatory approach, we break every window in their embassy, but we don't set fire to it."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1962
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 11 1/2 × 11 5/8 in. (29.2 × 29.6 cm) Sheet: 11 1/2 × 11 5/8 in. (29.2 × 29.6 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1495
"What's the official line now? Do we take an attitude of statemanlike diplomacy, or do we burn down their library?"
"What's the official line now? Do we take an attitude of statemanlike diplomacy, or do we burn down their library?"
Alan Dunn
c 1965
"Mind you, not their whole embassy. We may want to burn it again."
"Mind you, not their whole embassy. We may want to burn it again."
Alan Dunn
c 1965
"Now in transcribing the log, Weldon, you must stick to the official wording. We don't say, ""Fluffy white clouds in a cerulean sky."
"Now in transcribing the log, Weldon, you must stick to the official wording. We don't say, ""Fluffy white clouds in a cerulean sky."
Alan Dunn
1943
"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
"Men, we're all a part of the greatest amphibious operation in history, and, believe me, this is a scene we here topside will never forget. I wish you fellows could see it - the sky dark with planes, our planes, and the water dotted to the horizon with craft of every description..."
"Men, we're all a part of the greatest amphibious operation in history, and, believe me, this is a scene we here topside will never forget. I wish you fellows could see it - the sky dark with planes, our planes, and the water dotted to the horizon with craft of every description..."
Alan Dunn
1944
"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
"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
"Isn't this something we don't believe in?", "It's one Hell of a mess.", "Cheer up, there's a light ahead.", "Don't they know who we are?"
"Isn't this something we don't believe in?", "It's one Hell of a mess.", "Cheer up, there's a light ahead.", "Don't they know who we are?"
Alan Dunn
1960
"Now, when we take three hundred millilitres of a compound containing hydrogen and oxygen in a ratio of two to one and add three millilitres of an eight-hundredths percent stannous-fluoride solution, and fifty millilitres of treated industrial wastes and solids, we get drinking water."
"Now, when we take three hundred millilitres of a compound containing hydrogen and oxygen in a ratio of two to one and add three millilitres of an eight-hundredths percent stannous-fluoride solution, and fifty millilitres of treated industrial wastes and solids, we get drinking water."
Alan Dunn
c 1965
"The way I understand it, it means that now we can plant all the wheat we want."
"The way I understand it, it means that now we can plant all the wheat we want."
Alan Dunn
1963
"And what do we get?The trouble with people like us, Jethro, is that we don't demonstrate."
"And what do we get?The trouble with people like us, Jethro, is that we don't demonstrate."
Alan Dunn
1967
"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