Dust Bowl

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a region subject to dust storms in arid years, specifically the Dry Belt.

1953

The first year is 1937, the year of the worst crop failure, the climax year of the "dust-bowl."

1955

What little they had, they shared with one another; and somehow, in doing so, their humble little shacks became palaces in the Dust Bowl.