Daily Bread for 5.1.14

Good morning.

Thursday will be a day of showers and a high of forty-eight.

The Landmarks Commission meets tonight at 6 PM. Also at 6 PM, there’s a scheduled meeting of the Fire & Rescue Task Force.

Today is the anniversary of the official opening (from 1931) of the Empire State Building:

….The construction was part of an intense competition in New York for the title of “world’s tallest building“. Two other projects fighting for the title, 40 Wall Street and the Chrysler Building, were still under construction when work began on the Empire State Building. Each held the title for less than a year, as the Empire State Building surpassed them upon its completion, just 410 days after construction commenced. Instead of taking 18 months as anticipated, the construction took just under fifteen. The building was officially opened on May 1, 1931 in dramatic fashion, when United States President Herbert Hoover turned on the building’s lights with the push of a button from Washington, D.C. Coincidentally, the first use of tower lights atop the Empire State Building, the following year, was for the purpose of signaling the victory of Franklin D. Roosevelt over Hoover in the presidential election of November 1932.^[29]
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Only two years later, the building survived an ascent from a giant primate, as seen in this archival footage:

On this day in 1786, a famous Wisconsin brewer is born:

1786 – Brewer Jacob Best Born
On this date Jacob Best Sr. was born. Best founded the Best and Co. Brewery in Milwaukee. In 1889, the brewery was renamed the Pabst Brewing Co. [Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography,  1960].

Here’s Puzzability‘s Thursday game:

This Week’s Game — April 28-May 2

Lone Rangers

Welcome to the Daily Hitching Post. For each day this week, we started with the name of a well-known person from the days of the Old West and removed all the letters that appear more than once, leaving just the singly occurring letters. Each day’s clue gives the unique letters in order (with any spaces removed), along with the lengths of the name components in parentheses.

Example:

CHIAY (3,8)

Answer:

Doc Holliday

What to Submit:

Submit the full name (as “Doc Holliday” in the example) for your answer.

Thursday, May 1

PGE (3,7)