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  2. Dust Bowl - Wikipedia

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    The term "the Dust Bowl" originally referred to the geographical area affected by the dust, but today it usually refers to the event itself (the term "Dirty Thirties" is also sometimes used). The drought and erosion of the Dust Bowl affected 100 million acres (400,000 km 2 ) that centered on the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma Panhandle and ...

  3. Great Plains Shelterbelt - Wikipedia

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    The Great Plains Shelterbelt was a project to create windbreaks in the Great Plains states of the United States, that began in 1934. [1] President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated the project in response to the severe dust storms of the Dust Bowl, which resulted in significant soil erosion.

  4. Arvin Federal Government Camp - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Arvin Federal Government Camp begins with the migration of people displaced by the events of the Dust Bowl in the mid-1930s. A combination of droughts and high intensity dust storms forced many farmers in areas such as Oklahoma to vacate and find a new beginning. In the summer of 1934 the date July 24th marked the 36th ...

  5. 1936 North American heat wave - Wikipedia

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    It took place in the middle of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930s and caused more than 5,000 deaths. Many state and city record high temperatures set during the 1936 heat wave stood until the 2012 North American heat wave .

  6. Black Sunday (storm) - Wikipedia

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    Black Sunday is a particularly severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl in the United States. [1] It was one of the worst dust storms in American history and caused immense economic and agricultural damage. [2] It is estimated that 300 thousand tons of topsoil were displaced from the prairie area. [3]

  7. 3 Dow Stocks That Got Left in the Dust Today - AOL

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    Calling any stock on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) a loser today is tough, given that the index jumped 0.75%. But there were still a few companies that were determined to lose you ...

  8. Police release IDs of more victims in deadly dust storm ...

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    A dust storm in central Illinois Monday morning, May 1 created "zero visibility" conditions, triggering a fiery 72-vehicle pileup on Interstate 55 that killed seven people and injured more than 35 ...

  9. 1934–35 North American drought - Wikipedia

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    There were also dust storms in 1934 and 1935 in the southern Great Plains, the Midwest, Great Lakes States and even the East Coast of the U.S. [3] Many studies indicate that the drought spells might have been caused when tractors and farm machinery were introduced the previous decade. [2]