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"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."

"Look here! Holding the line on prices for structural steel isn't the same thing as twenty cents for cup custard."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Datec 1966
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 6 15/16 × 9 7/16 in. (17.7 × 24 cm) Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 13/16 in. (19 × 25 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1982.334
"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, 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."
Alan Dunn
c 1965
"This one's thirty cents more, it has more "up"."
"This one's thirty cents more, it has more "up"."
Alan Dunn
1939
"That's fifty cents apiece on each casserole as a deposit, ma'm."
"That's fifty cents apiece on each casserole as a deposit, ma'm."
Alan Dunn
1948
"If they overhaul the world's monetary system, what happens to my eighty-two dollars and fifty seven cents?"
"If they overhaul the world's monetary system, what happens to my eighty-two dollars and fifty seven cents?"
Alan Dunn
1972
No caption (sign in supermarket window: "All Merchandise Marked Down To Last Week's Prices")
No caption (sign in supermarket window: "All Merchandise Marked Down To Last Week's Prices")
Alan Dunn
1969
No caption (The 4th Avenue lunch bar changes name-"No Rise in Prices!")
No caption (The 4th Avenue lunch bar changes name-"No Rise in Prices!")
Alan Dunn
1959
No caption (store window sign "Buy Now! Last Chance to Buy at Low Prices Before the Recession is Finally Over!")
No caption (store window sign "Buy Now! Last Chance to Buy at Low Prices Before the Recession is Finally Over!")
Alan Dunn
1961
No caption (sign in bargain shop "14.3% Off All Prices.")
No caption (sign in bargain shop "14.3% Off All Prices.")
Alan Dunn
1967
No caption (Prices Slashed!)
No caption (Prices Slashed!)
Alan Dunn
1939
"It's exactly the same thing, only it doesn't come from Sumatra any more. It comes from the Hackensack meadows."
"It's exactly the same thing, only it doesn't come from Sumatra any more. It comes from the Hackensack meadows."
Alan Dunn
1945
40. High Cost of Living. Prices rise higher and higher;/ My salary no longer stretches,/ To play the market is one thing—/ Marketing, quite another.
40. High Cost of Living. Prices rise higher and higher;/ My salary no longer stretches,/ To play the market is one thing—/ Marketing, quite another.
José Guadalupe Posada
1947