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"We hate to mix business with pleasure, Mr. Steen, but how do you feel about giving us that order for 50,000 (indeciferable)?"
"We hate to mix business with pleasure, Mr. Steen, but how do you feel about giving us that order for 50,000 (indeciferable)?"

"We hate to mix business with pleasure, Mr. Steen, but how do you feel about giving us that order for 50,000 (indeciferable)?"

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1927
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon
DimensionsObject: 7 15/16 × 8 13/16 in. (20.2 × 22.4 cm) Sheet: 7 15/16 × 8 13/16 in. (20.2 × 22.4 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1675
"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
"I wonder how the U.N. feels about postwar bonuses."
"I wonder how the U.N. feels about postwar bonuses."
Alan Dunn
1950
"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
"Does either of you gentlemen feel strongly about retaining the title of vice president?"
"Does either of you gentlemen feel strongly about retaining the title of vice president?"
Alan Dunn
1954
"Say, how about us having sort of an office party?"
"Say, how about us having sort of an office party?"
Alan Dunn
1950
"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
"I'm telling you for the last time, Harwick. It's none of your business how much it costs the taxpayers. Your job is to find that gun."
"I'm telling you for the last time, Harwick. It's none of your business how much it costs the taxpayers. Your job is to find that gun."
Alan Dunn
1941
"I wouldn't call it a slowdown, Boss. It just so happens that none of us feel up to scratch."
"I wouldn't call it a slowdown, Boss. It just so happens that none of us feel up to scratch."
Alan Dunn
1968
"Don't you worry about me, Ma'am. I've been in the business too long to have any feelings left."
"Don't you worry about me, Ma'am. I've been in the business too long to have any feelings left."
Alan Dunn
1933
"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?"
Alan Dunn
1969
"Lady, would you mind turning down that radio?", "Do you think city life makes us neurotic?"
"Lady, would you mind turning down that radio?", "Do you think city life makes us neurotic?"
Alan Dunn
1948
"Confidence that the stockholders will support us when they know the facts' ranks high among Famous Last Words in American Business."
"Confidence that the stockholders will support us when they know the facts' ranks high among Famous Last Words in American Business."
Alan Dunn
1955