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  2. Dust Bowl - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Black Sunday (storm) - Wikipedia

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    The term "Dust Bowl" initially described a series of dust storms that hit the prairies of Canada and the United States during the 1930s. [4] It now describes the area in the United States most affected by the storms, including western Kansas, eastern Colorado, northeastern New Mexico, and the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. [5]

  4. Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936

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    The Act also gave directives to conserve the soil in the "high plains"—soil that was being raised into huge dust bowls during the 1930s. This period, known as the Dust Bowl, coupled with the economic hardships of the Great Depression, hit farmers particularly hard. The act attempted to correct earlier government policy that encouraged farmers ...

  5. Last Man Club - Wikipedia

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    The Last Man Club was a mutual support group for farmers that chose to stay in the Southern Plains of Texas, US in spite of the devastation caused by the Dust Bowl disaster of the 1930s. It was the first American Dream. During the Dust Bowl, many farmers around Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle Area experienced the worst of the Depression.

  6. Drought Relief Service - Wikipedia

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    "Four extensive droughts developed in the Great Plains area between 1930 and 1940, causing widespread dust storms, agricultural failure, poverty, unemployment and devastation to the nation's economy."

  7. Economic toll from last year’s natural disasters was highest ...

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    “The catastrophic wildfires burning in Southern California combined with destructive hurricane impacts last year have been the worst series of natural disasters in America since the Dust Bowl in ...

  8. Howard Finnell - Wikipedia

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    Henry Howard Finnell (October 27, 1894 – September 7, 1960) was an agronomist and erosion specialist who pioneered methods to combat soil erosion during the Dust Bowl that afflicted North America in the 1930s. He was born in Oakley, Hinds County, Mississippi, the son of Jesse and Jerusha Finnell. [1]

  9. Discontinued Candy All Boomers Should Remember - AOL

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    7. Space Dust. Introduced: 1978 Discontinued: 1983 Some say Space Dust was a Pop Rocks knock-off, but this candy was its own thing entirely. Pop Rocks were small crystal-like pieces of candy that ...