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dust bowlArea in the Great Plains region of North America (Texas to Kansas) that suffered extensive wind erosion as the result of drought and poor farming practice in once-fertile soil. Much of the topsoil was blown away in the droughts of the 1930s and the 1980s. Similar dust bowls are being formed in many areas today, noticeably across Africa, because of overcropping and overgrazing. |
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| 9 quake that hit San Francisco on April 18, 1906, occurred in the same place today, it would rank as the United States' costliest natural disaster--with the possible exception of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, says Vranes. We may know something about the Dust Bowl, soup lines, and other aspects of that terrible time, but perhaps we know little about the coal miners of West Virginia and how they survived when the mines were closed. Her solo to his Dust Bowl Ballads (1941) used a limp fedora almost like a partner as she beat away at imaginary dust. |
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