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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 ...
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought ) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion , most notably the ...
San Francisco in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City by the Bay (1939) excerpt; Federal Writers Project. The WPA Guide to New York City: The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s (1939) Rodriguez, Joseph A. "Planning and urban rivalry in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1930s." Journal of Planning Education and Research (2000) 20#1 pp: 66–76.
“During the Great Depression, the average home in America was $3,900, the average car was $600, and the average monthly rent was $18 or $216 a year, and the average salary was $1,300 for the ...
Capitalism in America: A History. New York: Penguin Press. pp. 220– 272. ISBN 978-0735222441. Hapke, Laura. Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s (1997) Hicks, John D. Republican ascendancy, 1921–1933 (1960). online; Himmelberg, Robert F. ed The Great Depression and the New Deal (2001), short overview
In a 1930 report, William Zeh, a forester for the Navajo Reservation, observed there was serious erosion in different parts of the reservation. He suggested a minor reduction in livestock, with an emphasis upon the number of goats. He believed the Navajo way of life was threatened. [2] There was also a drought in the Midwest.
Also in Latin America Symbolism and Magic Realism were important movements. In Europe during the 1930s and the Great Depression, Surrealism, late Cubism, the Bauhaus, De Stijl, Dada, German Expressionism, Symbolist and modernist painting in various guises characterized the art scene in Paris and elsewhere.
For much of the past decade, policymakers and analysts have decried America's incredibly low savings rate, noting that U.S. households save a fraction of the money of the rest of the world.