Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, who had gone out from Washington to get away from blueprints and reports, soon shoved printed matter aside, set off at the head of a 40-car motor caravan to see things for himself. Rolling through stubbly, barren fields, over roads which blanketed the party in dust, the President inspected a sample WPA dam, turned into the farm of big, blue-eyed, young J. J. Boehm. While Mrs. Boehm and six small Boehms stared, the President asked: "How many acres have you?" "President," replied Farmer Boehm in a thick German accent, "I got 480 and I am having...
...vacations granted to Harvard students, Christmas and Spring, the Express is again called to the forefront as undergraduates shake the dust of college towns off their feet for a flying trip home and back with often only time enough for a couple of days in the old home town...
...Scott City, Kans., the Commission saw the Kansas half of the Dust Bowl...
This week the rest of the Commission's trip (see map) takes it north to view regions even more desolate than the Southwest's Dust Bowl, the blister that covers parts of the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming. Later they will meet the President in South Dakota, make a preliminary report...
...south of Rome, a district infested for centuries with malaria but now ditched, drained, booming and blooming. Arriving at a Pontine farm which he helped sow with wheat last year, the Dictator last week pitched in under a broiling sun and helped thresh. Afterward, with sweat pouring down his dust-begrimed face, Thresher Mussolini presented his work slip for an hour's labor, drew the regulation five lire...