dust-bowl days

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the depression years of the 1930's, so called in reference to the dust storms and drought on the prairies.

Quotations

1953

It is the land which, in 1952, fulfilled its promise . . . which had a hollow ring in the dust-bowl days of the hungry thirties.

1964

[This] is considerably higher than the national average and several times more than farmers earned during the harsh, dust-bowl years of the 1930s.

1966

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.