Good morning, Whitewater.
Midweek in the Whippet City will be mostly cloudy with a high of forty-three. Sunrise is 6:47 and sunset is 7:13, for 12h 25m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 31.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Tech Park Board meets at 8 AM. This afternoon, the CDA’s Seed Capital Committee meets at 4 PM, and the CDA Board at 5 PM.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25 – 1911 at 4:40 PM. Via Wikipedia.
It’s the one-hundred fourth anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire:
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan, New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and 23 men [1] – who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Jewish and Italian immigrant women aged 16 to 23;[2][3][4] of the victims whose ages are known, the oldest victim was Providenza Panno at 43, and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and “Sara” Rosaria Maltese.[5]
Because the owners had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits, a common practice used to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and pilferage,[6] many of the workers who could not escape the burning building jumped from the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors to the streets below. The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers.
The factory was located in the Asch Building, at 23–29 Washington Place in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, now known as the Brown Building and part of New York University. The building has been designated a National Historic Landmark and a New York City landmark.[7]
Here’s Puzzability‘s Wednesday game:
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This Week’s Game — March 23-27
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Mixed Company
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The economy may be looking up, but these businesses have fallen to pieces. For each day this week, we started with the name of a current Fortune 500 company. We removed all spaces and punctuation, then divided the string into three-letter chunks. Those chunks, in random order, are the day’s clue.
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Example:
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RIC ESS XPR AME ANE
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Answer:
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American Express
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What to Submit:
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Submit the company name (as “American Express” in the example) for your answer.
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Wednesday, March 25
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