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"I can give you Samuel F. B. Morse, Mr. Wells, or Mr. Fargo right away, but there's a half hour's delay in getting through to Alexander Graham Bell."
"I can give you Samuel F. B. Morse, Mr. Wells, or Mr. Fargo right away, but there's a half hour's delay in getting through to Alexander Graham Bell."

"I can give you Samuel F. B. Morse, Mr. Wells, or Mr. Fargo right away, but there's a half hour's delay in getting through to Alexander Graham Bell."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1970
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 10 7/16 × 9 9/16 in. (26.5 × 24.3 cm) Sheet: 10 7/16 × 9 9/16 in. (26.5 × 24.3 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1652
"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
Sketch of Samuel F. B. Morse
Sketch of Samuel F. B. Morse
Anthony Toney
c 1960
Like everybody else, I am caught up in the rat race. I work eighty hours a week and with my real estate investments earn $100,000 a year. I just got divorced. In the insurance business, the public thinks we promise the moon, bit we can only deliver half a moon.
Like everybody else, I am caught up in the rat race. I work eighty hours a week and with my real estate investments earn $100,000 a year. I just got divorced. In the insurance business, the public thinks we promise the moon, bit we can only deliver half a moon.
Bill Owens
1975, printed 2006
"There's no time to lose, Mrs. Blount. Your nose is getting definitly out-of-doorsy."
"There's no time to lose, Mrs. Blount. Your nose is getting definitly out-of-doorsy."
Alan Dunn
1933
"And hereafter if there's anything you don't like, come to me, don't write to Mrs. Roosevelt."
"And hereafter if there's anything you don't like, come to me, don't write to Mrs. Roosevelt."
Alan Dunn
1941
"You fool, you! That 'delivery man' you sent to the service entrance happened to be my Uncle Garth - a member of the Union Club, the Metropolitan, the Pig and Garter, director in 32 corporations, chairman of the board of the L.W.R. and B. and Honorary Whip of the Syosset Beagles!" [Well my fine - Mr. Keeper of the portal" added in pencil.]
"You fool, you! That 'delivery man' you sent to the service entrance happened to be my Uncle Garth - a member of the Union Club, the Metropolitan, the Pig and Garter, director in 32 corporations, chairman of the board of the L.W.R. and B. and Honorary Whip of the Syosset Beagles!" [Well my fine - Mr. Keeper of the portal" added in pencil.]
Alan Dunn
1948
"All I have time for is a rejuvenation - Think I can make it in half and hour?"
"All I have time for is a rejuvenation - Think I can make it in half and hour?"
Alan Dunn
1960
"All I have time for is a rejuvenation - Think I can make it in half and hour?"
"All I have time for is a rejuvenation - Think I can make it in half and hour?"
Alan Dunn
1960
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Anthony Toney
circa 1960
"A Mrs. Clavicle, sounds like, wants to talk with you on the office phone. Shall I give her your private number or do you want to come down and talk with here on the office phone?"
"A Mrs. Clavicle, sounds like, wants to talk with you on the office phone. Shall I give her your private number or do you want to come down and talk with here on the office phone?"
Alan Dunn
1948
"A Mrs. Clavicle, sounds like, wants to talk with you on the office phone. Shall I give her your private number or do you want to come down and talk with here on the office phone?"
"A Mrs. Clavicle, sounds like, wants to talk with you on the office phone. Shall I give her your private number or do you want to come down and talk with here on the office phone?"
Alan Dunn
1948
#16 "Impossible, There's nothing I can wear."
#16 "Impossible, There's nothing I can wear."
Constantin Alajálov
1943