Good morning, Whitewater.
Our morning will be foggy, giving way to sunny skies and a high of forty-nine. Sunrise is 7:12 and sunset 6:56, for 11h 44m 27s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 72.6% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1941, Pres. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Bill into law, assuring Britain and others a supply of armaments in their fight against Nazi Germany. Here is a New York Times account of the signing:
Washington, March 11 _ President Roosevelt signed the history making lease-lend bill at 3:50 P. M. today immediately after receiving it from the Capitol, where the House completed action by accepting the Senate amendments by a vote of 317 to 71.
Five minutes after the bill was signed the President approved a list of undisclosed quantities of war materials to be transferred at once from the American Army and Navy to the British and the Greeks, to bolster these powers in their life-and-death struggle with the Axis. Most of these first materials, the nature of which the President guarded, will go to Great Britain. Having thus promptly set the machinery to motion toward making the United States “the Arsenal of democracy,” Mr. Roosevelt began work on a request to be sent to Congress tomorrow for an immediate appropriation of $7,000,000,000 with which to press the lease-lend effort to the fullest possible extent under the new law. This, he intimated, would be likely to include help to China as well as to Great Britain and Greece, and to all other nations which later may find themselves under threat of the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo alliance.
Puzzability offers the Wednesday game in its Miss Taken series:
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This Week’s Game — March 9-13
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Miss Taken
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Who are all the missing misses? For each day this week, we started with a name or word that can follow “Miss,” like “Congeniality” or “Hannigan.” Then we hid it in a sentence, with spaces added as necessary. The answer spans at least two words in the sentence and starts and ends in the middle of words. The day’s clue gives the sentence with a girl in place of the answer.
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Example:
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I think the creator of this strawberry rhubarb pie reci
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Answer:
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Peach (recipe achieved)
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What to Submit:
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Submit the name or word (as “Peach” in the example) for your answer.
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Wednesday, March 11
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