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"Look here, Soldier! It isn't for you and me to decide whether to get out of Vietnam."
"Look here, Soldier! It isn't for you and me to decide whether to get out of Vietnam."

"Look here, Soldier! It isn't for you and me to decide whether to get out of Vietnam."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Datec 1965
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 8 1/16 × 8 1/8 in. (20.5 × 20.7 cm) Sheet: 8 7/16 × 8 7/8 in. (21.5 × 22.6 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1982.305
"Before we go any further with this profit-incentive idea, I think we should decide whether or not we invented it."
"Before we go any further with this profit-incentive idea, I think we should decide whether or not we invented it."
Alan Dunn
1964
"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
"Look here! Holding the line on prices for structural steel isn't the same thing as twenty cents for cup custard."
"Look here! Holding the line on prices for structural steel isn't the same thing as twenty cents for cup custard."
Alan Dunn
c 1966
"He said his first words today: "Get out of Vietnam!"
"He said his first words today: "Get out of Vietnam!"
Alan Dunn
circa 1966
"Just a minute - that isn't much fun for Mrs. Mayhew. Mr. Mayhew, will you sit over here, please?"
"Just a minute - that isn't much fun for Mrs. Mayhew. Mr. Mayhew, will you sit over here, please?"
Alan Dunn
1930
"Don't blame us. It isn't our fault that you came out during the news blackout."
"Don't blame us. It isn't our fault that you came out during the news blackout."
Alan Dunn
1963
"You might at least wait until they get here."
"You might at least wait until they get here."
Alan Dunn
1967
"Look, lady, are you trying to make me overreact?"
"Look, lady, are you trying to make me overreact?"
Alan Dunn
1968
"Once you promised me the world, and now look at it!"
"Once you promised me the world, and now look at it!"
Alan Dunn
1973
"Let me get this straight. You want me to confess I was in error when I confessed I was in error before."
"Let me get this straight. You want me to confess I was in error when I confessed I was in error before."
Alan Dunn
1955
"You are not going to bring that out here!"
"You are not going to bring that out here!"
Alan Dunn
1953
"I'm sure you can get a few months' wear out of it before opinion crystallizes."
"I'm sure you can get a few months' wear out of it before opinion crystallizes."
Alan Dunn
1940