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"Now if we can only get Ben Bernie it'll be perfect."
"Now if we can only get Ben Bernie it'll be perfect."

"Now if we can only get Ben Bernie it'll be perfect."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1927
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon
DimensionsObject: 13 × 8 5/16 in. (33 × 21.1 cm) Sheet: 13 × 8 5/16 in. (33 × 21.1 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1703
"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
"Not now, dearest. When we get over to Sixth Avenue you can spit."
"Not now, dearest. When we get over to Sixth Avenue you can spit."
Alan Dunn
1930
"I must say it'll be good to get back to Gramercy Park, where one has one's own key."
"I must say it'll be good to get back to Gramercy Park, where one has one's own key."
Alan Dunn
1963
"Of course at that price we can only sell one to a customer."
"Of course at that price we can only sell one to a customer."
Alan Dunn
1933
"Incredible as it may seem to those of us who live in the world of anti-matter, a mirror image exists - the reverso of ourselves - which we can only call the world of matter."
"Incredible as it may seem to those of us who live in the world of anti-matter, a mirror image exists - the reverso of ourselves - which we can only call the world of matter."
Alan Dunn
c 1965
"We get the Times, too, but only for the news."
"We get the Times, too, but only for the news."
Alan Dunn
1938
"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
"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
"We get it in the army so do not send no more of it in cans."
"We get it in the army so do not send no more of it in cans."
Alan Dunn
1942
"Now pull yourself together, love. I haven't told the Mater and Dad anything about you yet except that you're perfect."
"Now pull yourself together, love. I haven't told the Mater and Dad anything about you yet except that you're perfect."
Alan Dunn
1933
"She's a perfect Jewel. She doesn't at all mind our having cocktails as long as we don't dawdle over them."
"She's a perfect Jewel. She doesn't at all mind our having cocktails as long as we don't dawdle over them."
Alan Dunn
1944
"You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?"
"You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?"
Alan Dunn
1966