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...picnic is over on retail sales, as the 1942 lines (see graph) clearly show. The drop would be still sharper if the graph reflected unit instead of dollar volume, for dollar volume in April was inflated by prices 17% higher than in April...
...afraid of his own absurd sentimentality, and the things it had led him to say in the letter. There were all those sentences about the Concord picnic, and the firelight party in the field house the night of the dance. Every trite and sentimental thing that anyone had ever written, Vag had put into his letter because he couldn't express himself any better. He wondered what had happened to his old flair for originalities...
...believed what he had written, in spite of its damned melodrama. The picnic had been a success--a perfect afternoon and evening, and the sunburn on his face had brought back a partly forgotten feeling of well-being as he had lain on the ground gazing up through the trees. When it had gotten dark, the firelight and the singing had flickered through the woods together. The others had sung unconcernedly, as if there were more picnics coming soon. It wasn't the way Vag had expected them to sing on the last of their Concord evenings together...
Crimson Network Members--Picnic truck leaves from Bow and Plympton (Adams House) at 10:30 o'clock Sunday morning. Have dates and other sports equipment assembled. --Crimson Notice Column...
...Astute Claire Chennault, as fine a pursuit pilot as ever zoomed a hangar, recognized their abilities, reveled in their high spirits and let them have the run of the sky. They flew pretty much as it pleased them, picked their objectives as lightheartedly as boys going on a picnic, collected their checks, and spent their money (a lot of it on whiskey at $50 a bottle...