Dust Bowl.

(noun)

In 1930, a confluence of bad weather and poor agricultural practices compounded the Depression's effects on farmers in areas that included 1 million acres in the South and Midwest Great Plains, which became known as the Dust Bowl.

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Examples of Dust Bowl. in the following topics:

  • Dust Bowl Migrants

    • The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American prairie lands in the 1930s.
    • The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936.
    • The Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres, centered on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and adjacent parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.
    • The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history within a short period of time.
    • The music and writings of Woody Guthrie were also inspired by the migrant workers and the Dust Bowl.

  • The Human Toll

    • The sustained drought and storms damaged the land so badly that overall farm revenue fell by 50 percent in the Dust Bowl region.
    • While there is no official death toll due to insufficient record keeping, it is believed that up to 7,000 deaths occurred as a result of the Dust Bowl.
    • The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history within a short period of time.
    • The music and writings of Woody Guthrie were also inspired by migrant workers and the Dust Bowl.
    • Farm equipment in South Dakota is left half exposed by one of the many wind storms that swept across the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl period of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

  • The Great Depression

    • Between 1930 and 1936, severe drought conditions existed in America’s Great Plains regions, with soil turning to dust and then blowing across dry, unused fields in what became known as “Dust Bowls.”
    • Dorothea Lange's 1937 photo of a Dust Bowl family from Missouri stuck on the side of the road near Tracy, California.

  • Conclusion: Cultural Change in the Interwar Period

    • In 1930, a confluence of bad weather and poor agricultural practices compounded the Depression's effects on farmers in areas that included 1 million acres in the South and Midwest Great Plains that came to be known as the Dust Bowl.
    • The sustained drought and storms damaged the land so badly that overall farm revenue fell by 50 percent in the Dust Bowl region.
    • Some residents of the Plains, especially in Kansas and Oklahoma, became ill and died of dust pneumonia or malnutrition.
    • While there is no official death toll due to insufficient record keeping, it is believed that up to 7,000 deaths occurred as a result of the Dust Bowl.
    • The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history within a short period of time.

  • Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants

    • However, the use of Mexican migrant laborers declined during the Great Depression, when internal migrant workers from Dust Bowl states moved west to California, taking jobs normally filled by Mexican migrants.

  • The Diversity of the West

    • However, the use of Mexican migrant laborers declined during the Great Depression, when internal migrant workers from Dust Bowl states moved west to California, taking jobs normally filled by Mexican migrants.

  • The Tea Ceremony

    • The chakin, a small rectangular white linen or hemp cloth mainly used to wipe the tea bowl.
    • The tea bowl, available in a wide range of sizes and styles, with different styles used for thick and thin tea.
    • Shallow bowls, which allow the tea to cool rapidly, are used in summer, while deep bowls are used in winter.
    • Bowls over four hundred years old are in use today.
    • The best bowls are thrown by hand, and irregularities and imperfections are prized and often featured prominently as the "front" of the bowl.

  • Portfolio Risk

    • Three assets (apples, bananas, and cherries) can be thought of as a bowl of fruit.
    • A full fruit basket probably has 10 or 15 different fruits, but my bowl will be efficient as much as its statistical parameters (risk and return) mimic those of the whole basket.
    • How does my bowl of fruit compare to the whole basket and how does that compare to other bowls out there?
    • To calculate the risk in my bowl, we need a little more background information on fruit markets.
    • If our bowl does not diversify away enough risk, it will not lie on the Security Market Line for those who we are trying to recruit into buying our portfolio.

  • Ceramics in Mesopotamia

    • Ceramists produced vases, bowls, and small jars domestically on slow wheels, painting unique abstract designs on the fired clay.
    • As the Akkadian Empire overtook the Sumerian city-states, ceramists continued to produce bowls, vases, jars, and other objects in a variety of shapes and sizes.
    • This photograph depicts an urn that resembles today's flower vases, as well as bowls, cups, and a smaller vase.
    • In this photograph, a bowl, a jar, and a goblet show remnants of paint on their exteriors.

  • Public Sphere and Civil Society

    • In his book Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam gave the famous example of bowling leagues as a voluntary association that makes up civil society.
    • Years ago, people used to come together in bowling leagues to bowl with their friends and compete against other leagues.
    • But over the years, bowling leagues have become less common (and, according to Putnam, so have all types of voluntary associations).