Word: duststorm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers were buying airplanes and putting landing strips in their fields. Kansans were reaching for more land, as they always had in prosperous times. But now they were paying mostly cash; Kansans remember all too well the disasters of mortgage foreclosures in the early '30s and after the duststorm years. Farm solvency was at an all-time high and the banks bulged with cash (in one Garden City bank 600 depositors had more than...
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