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"dust bowl" Definitions
  1. an area of land that has been turned into desert by lack of rain or too much farming

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Together, they survived the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.
We have since 1933, when we had the Dust Bowl.
She spent her early years watching Dust Bowl storms scour the prairie.
The Okies proved it in the Dust Bowl, that they could learn.
A lawless electronic dust bowl where anything can become famous for five minutes.
Sometimes, like when she's photobombing Dust Bowl migrants, she's flashing a big cheesy grin.
Workers moved north during the Great Migration and west out of the Dust Bowl.
"These were the dust bowl years, too; grasshoppers ate even the daylight," he wrote.
That journey is reimagined in Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads by Nick Hayes.
Sort of like, Roosevelt did this during the Dust Bowl, sharing best practices among farmers.
A huge dust storm moves across the land during the Dust Bowl of the 280s.
No one wants to see another Dust Bowl or the loss of important wildlife habitat.
Environmental conservation policies have maximized potable water and ameliorated a new Dust Bowl to the north.
The severity of this drought eclipsed that of the 1930s drought that triggered the Dust Bowl.
After just a few weeks they look like they've been picking potatoes in the Dust Bowl.
Congress created the stamps in the Dust Bowl year of 163 to help protect migratory waterfowl.
It features disco, Western choral music and Native American field recordings from the Dust Bowl era.
Here in the Midwest, we may see agricultural losses similar to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Working-class Americans, often defined as those without a college degree, are caught in a dust bowl.
When "American Gothic" was painted, farm families had yet to experience the hardships of the Dust Bowl.
Of course, farmers ended up abandoning their crops, and that's how we ended up with the Dust Bowl.
But it was the Dust Bowl and the legislation that followed that very nearly undid all the Wilders.
Ordinary people Ren, 42, grew up poor in Gansu, a dust bowl region that borders the Gobi desert.
In the 1930s they whipped its over-tilled topsoil up into the billowing black blizzards of the Dust Bowl.
His efforts to combat soil erosion in the Dust Bowl were also a way to save America's struggling farms.
It got hit hard by the Dust Bowl like a lot of towns in that part of the country.
The Dust Bowl taught us lessons the hard way — lessons that an entire generation of Americans would never forget.
This is all part of Franco's Dust Bowl Trilogy, which includes Of Mice and Men and The Grapes Of Wrath.
Recall the Dust Bowl, an environmental disaster that caused 2.5 million people to leave the Great Plains in the 1930s.
The first "farm bill" was passed in 1933 in response to the ravages of the Depression and the Dust Bowl.
Then, to the unit's frustration, it was sent out to Kharbardan, in a dust-bowl district of minimal strategic consequence.
Grand Coulee's original project name was the Planned Promised Land — a Pacific Northwest Eden for all those Dust Bowl refugees.
He landed in this area more than 2300 years ago, when he came out of the Dust Bowl looking for work.
A plethora of dams has diverted rivers that flowed to the Gulf from central Iran, turning Khuzestan into a dust bowl.
Around them lay a vast denuded plain, a treeless dust bowl, with acacia thorns planted in the sand to demarcate boundaries.
Dorothea Lange's pictures from the Dust Bowl in the 1930s defined what the Great Depression looked like in the United States.
Ever since the Dust Bowl days, a steady stream of local Muslims have been moving to cities for better economic prospects.
During the Dust Bowl years in the last century, people picked up en masse and moved to where there was work.
On the other side of the family, a great-uncle grew up during the drought and conflagrations of the Dust Bowl.
Directed by Srda Vasiljevic, this is a Dust Bowl tale about sin, guilt and the futility of trying to flee them.
Loewenstein's sensitive treatment of these dark days in the Dust Bowl era offers little humor but a whole lot of compassion.
This was during the Great Depression and there was a lot of programming in particular for farmers in the Dust Bowl.
The scene we'd imagined, with colonies of flamingoes strutting around a topaz shore, was instead a dust bowl, friable and desolate.
And I spent months talking to the last survivors of the worst environmental disaster in our history, the 1930s Dust Bowl.
The Central Valley is desiccated — the media have dubbed it "the Pacific Dust Bowl" — and the price of produce has skyrocketed.
Nick Hayes's Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads is published by Abrams Books and available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
Her parents endured the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression in the 1930s and later her father's career collapsed because of illness.
And Oklahomans are proud to be called Okies, a term coined by Californians to disparage people who were fleeing the Dust Bowl.
Her father, John, was a farmer who, during the 1930s drought in the Dust Bowl, took a job with the Commerce Department.
And if you think Minsberg and I are extreme, we've got nothing on runners who do things like the Dust Bowl Series.
Nineveh is becoming a dust bowl, and farmers, who came home after Islamic State fled, say they feel abandoned by Iraq's leaders.
Like many others in the region, her family came to the area from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s.
And, as we saw during the Dust Bowl, it is not just the environment or the endurance of the landowners at stake.
For one thing, it's huge, consisting of multiple regions, from grass plains to a dust bowl, each with their own distinct creatures.
Think hunter-gatherers, Crusaders, shrieking Dothraki hordes, or, more reasonably, Dust Bowl circus carnies, traveling town to town, entertaining (and swindling) the rubes.
The cool girls are wearing patched jeans and feathered bangs, but her mother dresses her in Dust Bowl-style pinafores and sensible shoes.
Despite a few major droughts and the Dust Bowl exodus in the 1930s, a number of these settlers clung to their cattle outposts.
"Migrant Mother" is relatable because it captures the strife of the Dust Bowl, and because it reveals the perseverance of motherhood against all odds.
Trampling from crowds has left much of the stretch a dust bowl that the National Park Service has tried for year to re-turf.
The 1930s Dust Bowl was reportedly denied and suppressed by "truth squads" out of the chambers of commerce, putting Midwestern farmers in harms' way.
Even the few older citizens who had been around for the Dust Bowl storms declared they'd never seen anything as awe-inspiring as this.
"I Will Send Rain" obliges with a grim portrait of a family weathering the Dust Bowl as naggingly evocative as grit in your mouth.
After the devastating dust bowl years of the 1930s and a series of severe floods in the early 22007s, Congress decided to do something.
Trying to survive the Dust Bowl, the residents of her town believe that she has divine powers that can bring rain and restore crops.
The Dust Bowl rolls into town with this musical tribute to that great American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, performed by four musically inclined actors.
Harry Taylor, 6, plays on the dust bowl his family farm has become during the drought on June 212 in Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia.
White workers migrated here, too, fleeing their own parched fields in the middle of the country that had dried out during the Dust Bowl era.
Even Burns's "smaller" projects (like 227's The Dust Bowl and 22019's Jackie Robinson) now typically fall in the four-to-six-hour range.
During the Great Depression, New Deal photographers and writers depicted farmers displaced by the Dust Bowl as virtuous people, victims of economic forces beyond their control.
Part family tableau, part dust-bowl saga, part lush romance, the show "sure is a hodgepodge of tones and topics," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.
And yet, the space gave the impression of being tidy and well-swept, not unlike a Dust Bowl kitchen if the prairie topsoil had been Technicolor.
There, an anthropological road map traces the story from Gibson girls to the Western Front to the Dust Bowl to bringing home the bacon and onward.
In the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s, St. Louis encephalitis, a related virus, surged, "and it looked like climate issues were involved," Dr. Reiter said.
Migrants escaping hardships like the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl made their way west on Route 66 in vehicles ranging from wagons to early automobiles.
That the search is necessary is a product of a Dust Bowl-like blight that has rendered Earth unable to produce most crops (other than corn).
By the 1930s, after four decades of overgrazing, irrigation withdrawals, grain agriculture, dredging and channelization, followed by several years of drought, Malheur had become a dust bowl.
The Dust Bowl, as it was called, displaced some 2.5 million people, including more than one-third of all farmers, in the largest migration in U.S. history.
Guthrie grew up working class in the Dust Bowl, listening to protest songs by labor activist and songwriter Joe Hill and sitting around campfires talking about socialism.
Dust Bowl migrants, for example, were so resented that legislators passed a 250 "anti-Okie" law a that criminalized the bringing of "any indigent person" into California.
As a teenager during the Dust Bowl, Carter had gotten into an altercation with a Mexican youth named Ramon Casiano whom he suspected of stealing the family's car.
Part family tableau, part dust-bowl saga, part lush romance, the show "sure is a hodgepodge of tones and topics," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times.
Established as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program, the FSA sent a team of 11 photographers into the US heartland to document life in the Dust Bowl.
Born to Jim and Flossie Haggard, Dust Bowl migrants from Oklahoma, Haggard grew up in a converted boxcar that his father, a carpenter for the railways, bought for $500.
In the first decade, this included mapping farmland and monitoring soil erosion through the Department of Agriculture (the Dust Bowl was swirling over the Great Plains at the time).
I once had a friendly debate with a peer, an individualist type who loves Merle Haggard, straight shooting, and driving long distances over the out-west neo-dust bowl.
Lest our grandchildren live through the next and permanent Dust Bowl, Generation Z will need to take the drastic steps we have been too greedy and cowardly to take.
It was during this era that the Dust Bowl formed in the Midwest, pushing all these people who once owned farms toward the West in hopes of starting new again.
But they inflamed the public's imagination by sticking it to the banks at a time when banks were hardly friendly institutions to anyone trying to survive in the Dust Bowl.
As the author of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," a document of the Dust Bowl-era American South featuring photographs by Mr. Evans, Mr. Agee took "The Southerner" personally.
In August, Marissa Mayer kicked up a dust bowl of criticism when she told Bloomberg Businessweek that Google's early success had a lot to do with 130-hour work weeks.
As you start walking across Dust Bowl-era America, the country is presented as a literal, three-dimensional map where houses, skyscrapers, and farms pop up like tiny Monopoly pieces.
Pyle told stories about life on the road, little oddities and small, heart-lifting triumphs and the misery that afflicted the drought-stricken Dust Bowl regions of the Great Plains.
Since I, Tonya, LuckyChap has produced some clunkers: Terminal (22000), which went straight to VOD, and a Dust Bowl Bonnie and Clyde–esque gangster movie, Dreamland, is still awaiting distribution.
The last time our nation was in a similar crisis was just after the Dust Bowl years in the 2703s, but the country's agricultural science enterprise was in much better shape.
" Of course, Burns went on at PBS to do some of the most influential work of his 30-plus year film career, including "The Central Park Five," and "The Dust Bowl.
Researchers Michael Glotter and Joshua Elliot from the University of Chicago ran computer simulations to predict the effects of a Dust Bowl-like drought on today's maize, soy, and wheat crops.
FDR's plan included sustainable ways to shape the nation's waterways and agriculture, trying to ensure there wouldn't be another Dust Bowl, the severe drought that came about from poor farming practices.
There's literally a scene where Bear goes "THEY'VE CONDEMNED THE PIER, JACK," as if he lost his farm to the Dust Bowl, or his herd to a gang of cattle rustlers.
Spanning nearly a century of epochal change, from the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl, Wilder's dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance.
But the push is facing Dust Bowl-force headwinds in one of the states most hostile to the health law — from some Oklahoma officials and from residents who mistrust all things federal.
Along the same lines, the Dust Bowl—a devastating drought in the United States in the 1930s—gave rise to the national farm insurance program and led to important land-use changes.
If the agricultural economy collapsed, however, everyone would feel it and there is no "plan B," just as there wasn't when the Great Plains experienced the Dust Bowl crisis of the 1930s.
The communities were intended to fuse the best of the urban and rural, and offer affordable housing for farmers displaced by the Dust Bowl, and city dwellers who were out of work.
With May 2018 ranking as the warmest such month on record in the continental U.S., beating out the Dust Bowl May of 1934, the country has extended a much longer heat streak.
So: a melting pot of Dust Bowl tea dresses and loden peacoats with velvet appliqués and thigh-high leather motorcycle boots, made to stomp and swan your way into an uncertain future.
His figures, alongside Lange's photographs of extreme destitution and hopelessness, were the first records of what would become known as the Dust Bowl, the name given to the drought-choked Southern Plains.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 80%Summary: In the dramatic thriller "Dreamland," Eugene Evans (Finn Cole) faces poverty after the devastation of the Dust Bowl and is on the brink of losing his family's farm.
New Delhi, India (CNN)By the time Rahul Gandhi arrived at his election rally in New Delhi, the bare piece of land which is otherwise used during Indian festival celebrations resembled a dust bowl.
A much overlooked difference from the times of wagon trains and the Dust Bowl: The internet, which leaves very little mystery as to what lies at the other end of almost any road taken.
But the act, which deeded 160 acres to anyone who would build a home and raise a crop, was no match for the drought of the 1890s and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Born in Bakersfield, California, to Dust Bowl migrants from Oklahoma, Haggard spent large chunks of the 1950s in prison, including a stint at the San Quentin prison where he witnessed Johnny Cash's legendary performance.
There were simple shirtwaist dresses falling to midcalf and belted with thin strips of leather at the waist, smudgy Dust Bowl tartans, serape furs, suede and printed Bar jackets and black leather motorcycle jackets.
Geographer Robert McLeman, who has studied the 1930s Dust Bowl migration, which saw 2.5 million people flee drought-stricken U.S. Plains states, said more urban planners need to begin preparing for waves of climate migrants.
Amid a vast migration during the early 21990th century, tens of thousands of black people like Ms. Beavers came to California's farm country from far-off states in the Cotton Belt and the Dust Bowl.
That's a similar exodus in scale to the one UChicago's Richard Hornbeck and Columbia's Suresh Naidu found after the Mississippi flood of 1927, and that Hornbeck identified occurring during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Progress in the Americana-infused game is made by collecting stories, which are sometimes sad (like a farmer's Dust Bowl plight) and sometimes strange (such as a strangely colored cloud that passed over a town).
By simulating the effects of the 1936 drought on today's agriculture, Glotter and Elliot observed 40 percent losses in maize and soy yield, and 30 percent declines in wheat—numbers comparable to the Dust Bowl crisis.
Editorial Some 330 million people — about one quarter of India's population — are reeling from a drought that has turned vast areas of the subcontinent into a dust bowl, withering crops and forcing farmers from their lands.
We see the dawn of Guthrie's itinerant existence during the Dust Bowl and the Depression, when he left his first wife and two children to join the countless destitute Midwesterners who migrated to California seeking work.
In the Midwest, dramatic changes in the landscape caused by over-farming created the dust bowl that destroyed entire regions of farmland and resulted in a mass exodus of nearly 19359 million Americans from the Plains states.
The Farm Bill was initially conceived as a response to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, an effort to provide fair prices for both consumers and farmers, access to quality food, and protection for natural resources.
The thick prairie sod of America's Great Plains was a rich carbon store until settlers tore it up for farms, leaving hundreds of millions of tons of topsoil to be blown away in the Dust Bowl years.
Canada's prairies, home to about 80 percent of its farmland, were devastated by the same long-term "Dust Bowl" drought that hit the United States in the 1930s, leading to farm failures and huge losses of topsoil.
The grinding of pigments, the large scale of the work, the tools, and even the background of growing up on a farm during the dust bowl highlighted that Still "came up the hard way," in Bradford's words.
This would cost us trillions of dollars, create an unprecedented humanitarian crisis by shattering countless hardworking families and plunge this country into a depression that would make the Dust Bowl look like Trump's skating rink in Central Park.
I did not struggle for too long with the clues today — letters drawn from UTAH, ROUGH DRAFT, RAINBOW, EAT ME, R-E-S-P-E-C-T and DUST BOWL gave me plenty of material to work with.
Earlier, Kari was Column One editor and assistant foreign editor at the Los Angeles Times, where among many highlights she edited a series on the California drought, "California's Dust Bowl," which won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
With tight federal budgets as far as the eye can see, policymakers need to think about how to think outside the box regarding conservation and conservation funding if they want to avoid future experiences akin to the Dust Bowl.
The current adult generation had lived through wartime rationing, and the one before that had weathered the hungry Dust Bowl years, so it's no wonder that the pendulum swung so far, making food as easy and readily available as possible.
The prints and photographs division of the Library of Congress has 15 million works of art alone, including prints, cartoons and photographs like Dorothea Lange's series on migrants in the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, and daguerreotypes of Abraham Lincoln.
The Dust Bowl was a defining moment in 28500th Century American economic history, when a combination of drought and poor farming practices in the mid-6900s destroyed the topsoil of thousands of farms throughout the Great Plains and Middle West.
The large, flightless birds are sometimes sighted in the town, 935 kilometers (580 miles) west of Sydney, but not in the numbers being seen amid a winter drought that has turned the state of New South Wales into a dust bowl.
But in the American songbook, even our best-known songs about climactic disasters — from Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl ballads to the blues songs about rivers rising and levees breaking — have tended to be less about storms, per se, than about water.
Founded in 22015, at Abraham Lincoln's request, the department would grow to play a central role in the New Deal of President Franklin Roosevelt, embracing a more activist approach to respond to crises like the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
These oils, watercolors and pencil-on-paper drawings include splashy images like Ed Paschke's "Sylvester" (1974-75) and "No Biz Like Show Biz" (1976) and glimpses beyond the city like Roger Brown's "Suburbs View" (1972) and "Bread Basket Dust Bowl" (1977).
Photo Courtesy NOAAIf there's anything that just about sums up the desperation of the Great Depression in one filthy package, it's photos of the Dust Bowl, when over-farming resulted in roving dust storms choking large swathes of the Great Plains region.
"The Family," exhibited at the Stable Gallery in 21963, showed a painted-wood family reminiscent of Dorothea Lange's photographs of the Dust Bowl: a seated mother holding a baby, her three children standing at her side, all staring stiffly at the viewer.
But what she did not know at the time was that her arrival also punctuated another mass migration that had brought tens of thousands of black American farm workers from the Cotton Belt and the Dust Bowl in search of a better life.
The Vietnam War digs into these contradictions by simple virtue of its existence, but something like Prohibition or The Dust Bowl is a subtle indictment of the ways unchecked capitalism leads to horrible public policy, which leads to self-inflicted national wounds.
LONDON (Reuters) - "Migration Blues", a new album from veteran bluesman Eric Bibb, uses the sounds of the American South to tell the tale of everyone from 1920s farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl for California to refugees crossing the Mediterranean to Europe in the 2010s.
On the screen: "The Plow that Broke the Plains," about the Dust Bowl (6900, 2628 minutes); "The River," a classic documentary about the Mississippi River (28503, 22019 minutes); and "Power and the Land," a vivid portrait of rural American farm life (1940, 39 minutes).
I understand that Ms. Weaver is too young to have lived through the Dust Bowl — so am I. But I would hope she isn't too dumb to have read about it and to have understood that these things have happened before, and will happen again.
Bint Fatma was among some 20,20153 women who would stick it out to the end, when the last redoubt of the caliphate was overrun by U.S.-backed forces early this year and its final denizens were trucked to these tents in a dust bowl.
The Boss has written some of the best work about the way economics shapes and limits lives — songs like "My Hometown" and the Dust Bowl-inspired Ghost of Tom Joad LP. He has not quite matched these since; his energies have largely been elsewhere.
But in sepia tones that reference the parched soil that flew all the way to New York City at the height of the Dust Bowl, Hayes offers a poignant narrative of how Guthrie rose from a directionless teenager in Okemah to the voice of the downtrodden nationwide.
We've already overpumped the aquifers that lie beneath most of the world's breadbaskets; without the means to irrigate, we may encounter a repeat of the nineteen-thirties, when droughts and deep plowing led to the Dust Bowl—this time with no way of fixing the problem.
The original Dust Bowl accelerated the flight of hundreds of thousands of people from 19 states in the region; the storms were so bad cattle and residents choked from "dust pneumonia," residents were forced to dust-proof homes and static electricity stalled cars and charged random metal objects.
It's hard to forget Catherine's parched Dust Bowl farm, where even the morning toast and eggs are coated with grit, and fans of futuristic fiction will be drawn to Anderson's vision of flooded cities, space travel and inventions like the KitchenLite, used to print edible eggs and bacon.
Similarly, the events of the Great Depression and World War II look very different in The Dust Bowl and The War, compared to how they look in 2014's The Roosevelts, which examines both of the former subjects from the point of view of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
The rural poor have always moved for work—from the Dust Bowl to California during the Great Depression, and from central Appalachia to the factories of Chicago after World War II. During the Great Migration, black Americans fled the South for the economic and social opportunities that Jim Crow prohibited.
People like to see us being smart, clever and not making mistakes, because that's the way we view ourselves: as tough people who historically — the people who came here survived the Dust Bowl and kept the land going and producing crops — had to have a certain level of toughness about them.
Grossman went on to document labor unions in the Dust Bowl, and his images from that time are poetic tapestries: in "Oklahoma" (1940), horses, saddled with thick, shiny leather, occupy the foreground, while a farmer in overalls stands atop a distant hill in the background, giving him the contours of something heroic.
To that end, Ms. Warren, an Oklahoma native, used a recounting of her roots to not just tell her family's ethnic story but to present a tale of Dust Bowl hardship that has the makings of a stump speech aimed at inoculating her against charges of being a member of the coastal elite.
The Great Depression spurred Americans to celebrate "real folks," although, as the cultural historian Sonnet Retman has written, that could mean black Southerners, Dust Bowl migrants, industrial workers—or the rural, white "real Americans" mythologized within a nativist tradition that descends from Father Coughlin to Sarah Palin and, now, to Donald Trump.
If you had asked any of the Dust Bowl farmers photographed in their thin clothes by Dorothea Lange whether they would mind getting dressed up, after a fancy breakfast, and going to a workplace where everyone was nice to them, they would have said that, all things considered, they could handle it.
Once upon a time, lower-income people were willing to pull up stakes and move to places with greater opportunity — think of the people who fled the Dust Bowl for California in the 1930s, or those who took the "Hillbilly Highway" out of Appalachia to work in Midwestern factories, or Southern blacks on the Great Migration.
Professor Gray's grounding in social justice began when she was a child growing up in Oklahoma in the 1930s on the fringes of the Dust Bowl, where her mother handed out food to migrant workers and her father's sermons against racism provoked a Ku Klux Klan cross-burning on the lawn of the parsonage in which the family lived.
As important as a reconsideration of the Dust Bowl and the depression [is], we wanted to underscore the contemporary significance, and so to that end, we developed a list of contemporary writers, artists, thinkers, and we were hoping that some of them might be willing to think about Lange today with us and to add new words to her pictures.
As important as a reconsideration of the Dust Bowl and the depression [is], we wanted to underscore the contemporary significance, and so to that end, we developed a list of contemporary writers, artists, thinkers, and we were hoping that some of them might be willing to think about Lange today with us and to add new words to her pictures.
His late-21981s hit "Hungry Eyes" revisited the dignity-starved lives his parents had led on arriving at California's squalid Hoovervilles after fleeing the Dust Bowl in 21999: A canvas-covered cabin in a crowded labor campStands out in this memory I revive'Cause my daddy raised a family thereWith two hard-working handsAnd tried to feed my mama's hungry eyes.
These images, alongside her portraits of the Dust Bowl, did nothing less than heighten the stakes of what we expect from a photograph, expectations that persist: These days, the camera, whether a Leica or an iPhone, is not so much a documentary tool as a politicking one — an incitement to outrage, a method through which to seek dramatic transformations of the status quo.
But from Woody Guthrie singing about the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression's devastations in the 1930s to rock and soul bands of the '22012s and '22011s writing about war and civil rights to British punks shouting about unemployment and the working class to rappers spitting about injustice and racism, popular music has always also delivered social critique — much of the time including economic issues.

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