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"Just one more thing and I'll shut up about it. If the franc topples, do we topple with it?"
"Just one more thing and I'll shut up about it. If the franc topples, do we topple with it?"

"Just one more thing and I'll shut up about it. If the franc topples, do we topple with it?"

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1969
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 9 3/8 × 9 13/16 in. (23.8 × 24.9 cm) Sheet: 9 3/8 × 9 13/16 in. (23.8 × 24.9 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1625
"All right - all right! I'll shut up - sick as I am -"
"All right - all right! I'll shut up - sick as I am -"
Alan Dunn
1930
"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
"While we're at it, we might as well put up a couple more for Japan and Outer Mongolia just in case."
"While we're at it, we might as well put up a couple more for Japan and Outer Mongolia just in case."
Alan Dunn
1956
"Just one more chapter, sir, and I promise I'll go to bed."
"Just one more chapter, sir, and I promise I'll go to bed."
Kindl (Alan Dunn)
1930
"You told her, Gus - Don't bore Sylvia and eat your potatoes! Naomi, I ought to warn you there's ice cream - wine, dear, Naomi and George have no wine - I must apologize about the plumbing - I do wish the neighbors wouldn't go to the john while I'm giving a dinner - more limas, dear? - Limas, Sylvia? - Gus, more limas? - Duffy, do go on about Perry and what were his rubbers doing in the ice box -."
"You told her, Gus - Don't bore Sylvia and eat your potatoes! Naomi, I ought to warn you there's ice cream - wine, dear, Naomi and George have no wine - I must apologize about the plumbing - I do wish the neighbors wouldn't go to the john while I'm giving a dinner - more limas, dear? - Limas, Sylvia? - Gus, more limas? - Duffy, do go on about Perry and what were his rubbers doing in the ice box -."
Alan Dunn
1948
"Claude, dearest, this is Sibyl again - I want you to tell me once more, beloved, those wonderful things you said about me last night at the Palm Gardens."
"Claude, dearest, this is Sibyl again - I want you to tell me once more, beloved, those wonderful things you said about me last night at the Palm Gardens."
Alan Dunn
1931
"One thing more, sir--does the traffic there keep to the right or the left."
"One thing more, sir--does the traffic there keep to the right or the left."
Alan Dunn
1943
"And one thing more--keep your eye on the time."
"And one thing more--keep your eye on the time."
Alan Dunn
1944
"Just to make things even-Stephen, we ought to invite Eisenhower and Leonard Hall."
"Just to make things even-Stephen, we ought to invite Eisenhower and Leonard Hall."
Alan Dunn
1955
"There's one thing you aren't going to like about this place - high tide."
"There's one thing you aren't going to like about this place - high tide."
Alan Dunn
1947
"Shut up! When I ask myself a rhetorical question I don't want an answer!"
"Shut up! When I ask myself a rhetorical question I don't want an answer!"
Alan Dunn
1948
"This one's thirty cents more, it has more "up"."
"This one's thirty cents more, it has more "up"."
Alan Dunn
1939