LYCOS RETRIEVER 
1938
built 634 days ago
From 1938 to 1996, the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Utility Administration was part of the DC Government. In 1996, the DC Government initiated the creation of the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DCWASA), a semi-autonomous regional entity. On April 18, 1996, following a 30-day Congressional review period, the DC Council enacted DC Law 11-111, "The Water and Sewer Authority Establishment and Department of Public Works Reorganization Act of 1996."
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Although Boston and most of northern Massachusetts escaped any truly severe damage from the 1938 hurricane, the area around New Bedford and Buzzards Bay was heavily damaged. As the storm-surge drove up the narrowing Buzzards Bay, Wareham lay right at the top of the bay. In Onset and Wareham, the wind and waves flattened entire rows of buildings and overturned automobiles. The area around Westport Beach and Horseneck beach was especially hard hit. The day after the storm - Horseneck Beach looked as if had been bombed. Buildings were overturned, the bathhouses and the main road had been swept way, and the coast was littered with debris.
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[I]t appears, the term "Kristallnacht" or "Crystal Night" was invented by Nazis to mock Jews on that black November night in 1938. It is, therefore, another example of Nazi perversion. There are numerous other examples of this same tendency in the language of the Nazi perpetrators: Sonderbehandlung ("special treatment") for gassing victims, Euthanasie for a policy of mass murder of retarded or physically handicapped patients, Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes you Free) over the entrance to Auschwitz. When the Nazis launched their plan to annihilate the remaining Jews in Poland in the fall of 1943, they called it "Erntefest," or Harvest Festival. While this may have been a code word, as Froma Zeitlin has observed, it had the same grim and terrible irony that is reflected in Kristallnacht as in so many other instances of the perverted uses of language in the Third Reich. Perhaps most cynical of all is the use of the term, "Endloesung der Judenfrage" (Final Solution of the Jewish Question), for what is now known as the Holocaust.
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Not helping matters at all was the 1938 Plymouth itself. A mildly facelifted version of the '37 car, it was a car with which the dealers and the public were not happy. The '37 had a "plump" sort of charm about it but, to many, the '38 looked downright pudgy. Its short, fat waterfall grille and the bug-eyed head lamps mounted high on the sides of the radiator shell did little for the looks of the car. Adding insult to injury were the twelve percent higher prices asked for the '38 models - this at a time when money was as hard to come by as it had been during the worst years of the depression. Heaped on top of all this was the fact that dealers' lots were full of used cars taken in during the bonanza years previous.
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In terms of fatalities and property damage - the 1938 hurricane stands as one of the worst disasters in North American history. In a matter of hours, 688 people were killed, 4500 were injured, and more than 75,000 buildings
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Richmond Camera was founded in 1938 by James Bullard as the first camera shop in Richmond, Virginia. Although he was only 21, he had worked his way through college and graduate school as a photographer. Using his extensive knowledge of photography to attract customers, he built Richmond Camera with quality products, fair prices, and timely deliveries.
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