Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Resettlement Administration nearly a year ago went Cinema Critic Pare Lorentz (Judge, McCall's) with an idea: Let the U. S. Government, heretofore backward in using the cinema, make a really good picture of the history of the Great Plains, showing how part of it became a dread "Dust Bowl" and how the Resettlement Administration was trying to rehabilitate its farmers. Critic Lorentz sold his idea, was at once chosen to direct the projected picture. Rather than have the film made on contract by an outside organization, he was put on the Resettlement Administration's payroll...
Lorentz and his crew filmed grass, cattle, dust in half a dozen western States, wound up in California. Farmers performed easily before the camera, found nothing odd in re-enacting their personal tragedy. At one point Photographers Steiner, Strand and Hurwitz grew fretful because The Plow That Broke the Plains was not forceful enough. When they saw the finished job. however, they withdrew objections. By that time two more notable names were on the film's credit list, on the Federal payroll: Composer Virgil Thomson (Four Saints in Three Acts), who provided a musical score, and Alexander Smallens...
...Wartime boom in which higher & higher prices are quickly followed by more & more wheat planting until the grass that once bound this country together has given way to endless fields under a parching sun. Finally, to mournful music by Composer Thomson, are shown the ravages of the drifting dust that followed when drought, heat and winds struck the acres that should never have been plowed. From the Dust Bowl in their automobiles, in the summer of 1935, emigrate 30,000 refugees a month to seek whatever jobs they can on the roads leading Westward. Epilog of the film shows...
...make him one of his young men. And Smuts, believing in Rhodes's dream of a united South Africa, was eager to follow-until the scandal of Jameson's Raid and the worse scandal of Rhodes's implication in it. Then Smuts shook the perfidious English dust from his feet, went north to join Kruger in the Transvaal...
...significant recommendation made by Mr.Andrews and his committee is the plea for conference groups in more Freshman courses. The experiences of students in Philosophy A and B especially, where a few high-powered cerebral machines run away with the section meetings, leaving the majority of the class cat their dust, make such a change seem increasingly necessary. Even discounting the natural fitness of History 1 for such treatment, the unquestioned success of the conference idea in this course, still augurs will for similar results in other fields...