Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dust Bowl. One November day in 1933 the sun turned pink, then red, then grey. Dust swirled up from the drought-ridden plains, rolled over the town in a black, gritty cloud. That winter and spring there were 90 such daylight blackouts. Dust stood an inch and a half deep on the window sills. Grasshoppers and locusts moved in as cattlemen and farmers moved...
...Farmer-Labor ticket, the clever and determined tactician who led and won the civil rights fight at the Democratic Convention last summer. One thing, above all, explains his way of thinking: all of his adult life has been spent in the era of Franklin Roosevelt. His dad, and the Dust Bowl taught him most of what he knows...
...many a hard-working Dakotan come to poverty through no fault of his own. Merchants and farmers, caught in the same trap together, turned to the Government. Relief checks saved the town and the family business. Said Humphrey later: "I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at college...
...Laugh at Me. By 1935, Huron was on its way back, and Hubert, who had shown little interest in girls, had met a brunette named Muriel Buck, the daughter of a produce and feed dealer whose business had gone to dust. Hubert took a bus trip to Washington, and wrote a letter back to his fianc...
...friends could say in his favor that he had also proved himself an honest and able public servant, with a quick, retentive mind, inexhaustible vigor, and considerable political courage. His point of view, born of the Dust Bowl, was honestly arrived at and stoutly held...