Good morning.
We’ll have a high of seventy-four with a thirty percent chance of showers today.
On this day in 1863, Henry Ford is born. Upon his death eighty-three years later, the New York Times wrote of him that
Henry Ford was the founder of modern American industrial mass production methods, built on the assembly line and the belt conveyor system, which no less an authority than Marshal Josef Stalin testified were the indispensable foundation for an Allied military victory in the Second World War.
Mr. Ford had many other distinctions. As the founder and unchallenged master of an industrial empire with assets of more than a billion dollars, he was one of the richest men in the world. He was the apostle of an economic philosophy of high wages and short hours that had immense repercussions on American thinking. He was a patron of American folkways and in later years acquired a reputation as a shrewd, kindly sage. But these were all relatively minor compared with the revolutionary importance of his contribution to modern productive processes.
In Wisconsin history, economist Thorstein Veblen is born:
1857 – Thorstein Veblen Born
On this date economist and social commentator Thorstein Bunde Veblen was born in Cato, although some sources place his birth in Valders. He is best known for his book The Theory of The Leisure Class (1899), a classic of social theory that introduced the concept of “conspicuous consumption.” [Source: The Radical Academy]
Puzzability has a series this week, from 7.29 to 8.2, entitled Last Laughs:
Last Laughs
For your amusement this week, we started each day with the name of a TV star who won an Emmy for his or her lead performance in a comedy series. Then we replaced all the letters in each word—except the last letter—with asterisks.
Example:
***Y ****R ****E
Answer:
Mary Tyler Moore
Here’s Tuesday’s puzzle:
***A **Y