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dust bowl

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1. dust bowlnoun

   a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s

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1. Dust Bowl

   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 both natural factors (severe drought) and manmade factors (a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion, most notably the destruction of the natural topsoil by settlers in the region). The drought came in three waves: 1934, 1936, and 1939–1940, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years.The Dust Bowl has been the subject of many cultural works, notably the novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck, the folk music of Woody Guthrie, and photographs depicting the conditions of migrants by Dorothea Lange, particularly the Migrant Mother, taken in 1936.

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1. dust bowl

   The Dust Bowl refers to a period in the 1930s in the United States characterized by severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies. This caused extensive economic hardship and forced many farmers to migrate to other areas. The term "Dust Bowl" is also used to describe the geographical area affected, primarily the south-central part of the United States. This event was caused by severe drought conditions coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent erosion.

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1. Dust Bowl

   The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought combined with a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion. Extensive deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains in the preceding decade had displaced the natural deep-rooted grasses that normally kept the soil in place and trapped moisture even during periods of drought and high winds. Rapid mechanization of farm implements, especially small gasoline tractors and widespread use of the combine harvester, were significant in the decisions to convert arid grassland to cultivated cropland. During the drought of the 1930s, without natural anchors to keep the soil in place, it dried, turned to dust, and blew away with the prevailing winds. At times, the clouds blackened the sky, reaching all the way to East Coast cities such as New York City and Washington, D.C.. These immense dust storms – given names such as "black blizzards" and "black rollers" – often reduced visibility to a few feet or less. The "Black Sunday" black blizzards of April 14, 1935, were witnessed by Associated Press reporter Robert E. Geiger who happened to be in Boise City, Oklahoma that day; the term Dust Bowl was coined by Edward Stanley, Kansas City news editor of the Associated Press, while rewriting Geiger's news story.²

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dust bowl in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

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   The numerical value of dust bowl in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of dust bowl in a Sentence

1. Murray Campbell:

   We'd be a dust bowl without irrigation.

2. Jonas Jgermeyr:

   It would be the largest anomaly ever recorded, larger than the Dust Bowl event in the 30s and exceeding the impact from the largest volcanic eruptions in modern history.

3. State Lands ' Kayli Yardley:

   Here in Utah, we are seeing weather typical of the 1930s during the Dust Bowl. It is so dry, and you have that aridity in the earth, and you get a fire that is sucking all the moisture out of the air. You're going to have these crazy, catastrophic fires.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wikipedia
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4. ^ Wikidata
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