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Friday, January 21, 2011

The Dust Bowl

During the early 1930s, children wore dust masks to and from school, women hung wet sheets over windows in a futile attempt to stop the dirt, farmers watched helplessly as their crops blew away. The Dust Bowl lasted for a decade and the number of dust storms is increasing in 1932. 5 million people left the dust bowl and more than 7,000 people die.
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