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Dust Bowl: 1930S
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The massive and sudden change to the plains is what caused the dust bowl. Never before had a dust storm occurred with the devastation of the Dust Bowl. With new technologies like tractors and larger combines nature could not replenish itself in time. The global economy of the 1930s depended on the agriculture of the Great Plains. Some greedy people tried to meet these demands too quickly and carelessly. This devastation of the land could have been avoided if the land was not treated as just a tool for making money.
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Dust Bowl is that excessive cultivation of the land in the 1930s exposed dry soil to the wind. But the mystery has been this: Why was cultivation so much more extensive, and the use of erosion control techniques so limited, during the 1930s?
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Years of drought, heat, and dust took their toll on dust bowl residents, but these were not the only trials people had to face during the 1930s. Winters were bitterly cold. Fire, insects, and other pests often swept the region. Loved ones died of illness or injury. Nevertheless, mutual support, humor, and the optimistic belief that the rains would come kept people going. Imogene Glover said, "My daddy was an optimist.
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The nation's lingering drought has spread across 29 states --including nearly the entire East Coast --and is evoking comparisons to the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah have declared drought emergencies; farmers in Georgia are being paid not to irrigate, and even New York City is under mandatory water conservation. In parts of central and Western North Carolina, the dry stretch is about to move into its fifth summer, so the effects have spread beyond withered lawns.
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The lower half of the center panel explains the highway's role in helping migrants leave their Dust Bowl for California during the 1930s. Because of this role, novelist John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath referred to Route 66 as "The Mother Road."
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The climate center reported that average temperatures in the contiguous United States beat the record heat during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. September had an average temperature of 69.1 degrees Fahrenheit, surpassing the previous record of 68.4 degrees, set in September 1931. AP, 10/23/98
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