Word: guymon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dalhart, Tex., the Commission visited a farm where green crops were growing on land that was near-desert two years ago, the result of Government experiments in soil conservation. Between Dalhart and Guymon, in the Oklahoma Panhandle, Dr. Tugwell and Mr. Cooke climbed dust hills 40 feet high to look out on a landscape of shifting dunes that once was fertile farm land. Mr. Cooke admitted: "This is about what we expected...
...milk, coffee, soup and stew. Dust poured through the cracks in farmhouse walls, under the doors, down the chimneys. In northwest Oklahoma a hundred families fled their homes. Every school in Baca County, Colo, was closed. In Texas the windswept hayfields were alive with blinded sparrows. Methodist congregations in Guymon, Okla. met three times a day to pray for rain._ Originally confined to a 200-mile strip between Canada and Mexico, last week's dust storm suddenly swirled eastward over Missouri, Iowa and Arkansas, crossed the Mississippi to unload on Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana. With half...
George and Henry Hitch of Guymon are Oklahoma's biggest wheat producers. This year they are harvesting 85,000 bu. from 4,500 acres, about the same as last year. Officials last week estimated that Oklahoma's acreage (3,750,000) in wheat will be reduced 30% next year because farmers cannot finance larger plantings...