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Sign in store window "Buy now at the accepted 3.2% inflation rate the dollar won't buy anything at all by 1998".
Sign in store window "Buy now at the accepted 3.2% inflation rate the dollar won't buy anything at all by 1998".

Sign in store window "Buy now at the accepted 3.2% inflation rate the dollar won't buy anything at all by 1998".

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Datec 1966
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 8 9/16 × 8 1/4 in. (21.8 × 21 cm) Sheet: 8 7/8 × 8 9/16 in. (22.6 × 21.7 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1982.337
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
"A trillion-dollar economy is all right with me, but will it buy happiness?"
"A trillion-dollar economy is all right with me, but will it buy happiness?"
Alan Dunn
1970
No caption (sign in auto show room "You Ought to Buy Now")
No caption (sign in auto show room "You Ought to Buy Now")
Alan Dunn
1958
"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
"I don't remember Verona very well. I guess I didn't buy anything there."
"I don't remember Verona very well. I guess I didn't buy anything there."
Alan Dunn
1969
"May I suggest Senator, that perhaps we should offer the whole five and a half billion dollars to Mr. Stalin to buy off Communism itself?"
"May I suggest Senator, that perhaps we should offer the whole five and a half billion dollars to Mr. Stalin to buy off Communism itself?"
Alan Dunn
1948
"Very well, Madam, buy an all-metal if you wish, but I still picture you in a four-poster."
"Very well, Madam, buy an all-metal if you wish, but I still picture you in a four-poster."
Alan Dunn
1930
No caption ("Whistler's Father" displayed in a liquor store window, with a sign above reading "Remember Father's Day June 21st") )
No caption ("Whistler's Father" displayed in a liquor store window, with a sign above reading "Remember Father's Day June 21st")
)
Alan Dunn
1970
No Caption (sign in store window "Only 70 Shopping Days Before Easter")
No Caption (sign in store window "Only 70 Shopping Days Before Easter")
Alan Dunn
1950
No Caption (Fur-store window and sign painter)
No Caption (Fur-store window and sign painter)
Alan Dunn
1951
"But I had to buy something, so I could get some change for the exact-fare bus."
"But I had to buy something, so I could get some change for the exact-fare bus."
Alan Dunn
1969
"We really ought to diversify and buy George's company. George is a very fine fellow."
"We really ought to diversify and buy George's company. George is a very fine fellow."
Alan Dunn
1954