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Dirty Thirties
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the depression years of the 1930's, so called in reference to the dust storms and drought on the prairies.
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1958
To some of the prairie provinces last month, the weather looked like a recipe for disaster, possibly even a repeat performance of the "Dirty Thirties," when high winds roaring over bare, parched earth sheared off millions of tons of topsoil, forced abandonment of 30 % of the land in south Saskatchewan alone.
1963
And it was during those depression days, the dirty Thirties, that Jodoin met trade unionists. . . .
1966
[Book-Review] This book gives a very sharp portrait of the Province of Saskatchewan in those terrible "dust-bowl" years, the dirty thirties, as they were called.