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April 14, 1935, was the worst day of the 1930s drought. It was Palm Sunday. The day began as a beautiful day with the sun shining; by noon the weather changed. Robert Geiger was traveling through Guymon, Oklahoma when a large black cloud from the north darkened the sky. Temperatures dropped 40 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius) within an hour. In the middle of the day people had to use flashlights to get from place to place. The earth being so dry and no crops or grass to hold dirt down stirred and became the worse dust storm in United States' history. Geiger in writing his article for the Associated Press about the storm coined the phrase "Dust Bowl." Within hours, the press repeated the coined phrase nationally and internationally.
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∙ 15y ago
Maureen D.
During the 1930's, there were some serious droughts in Oklahoma. They led to severe dust storms, which ripped through the countryside, topsoil being flung everywhere. It was a very dangerous phenomenon, as anyone stuck out in one of the dust storms without any sort of protection had very little chance of survival. Crops failed and this led to financial ruin for many farmers in the Plains states affected by the dust bowl of the dirty thirties.
The Great Depression had just begun its ravaging of the United States; available jobs were little and few, and well-paying jobs even less so.
So, families then decided to sell their belongings that they could not take and get out of there as fast as they could. Soon it seemed everyone had left on the road to California, hoping they could find some work elsewhere.
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∙ 15y agoBecause of the dust storms that started in January of that year.
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What was the first destination of people leaving the dust bowl?
oklahoma
What was the nickname of Oklahoma during the 1930s?
Dust Bowl
Country swing music developed in the 1920s and 1930s in what area of the US?
Texas and Oklahoma
The term Okie was used to describe people who migrated away from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. This migration was famously depicted in which of the following books?
'The Grapes of Wrath'
What's the fine for leaving the scene of an accident in Oklahoma?
$500
How did people in the 1930s?
People in the 1930s traveled mostly by hover cars and acconsionly by rocket ships..
What was the name of the area affected by severe drought in the 1930s?
ITtwas known as the "Dustbowl" and included portions of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
Did people drive wagons in the 1930s?
yes... people drove wagons in the 1930s.. but there were cars there too.. but it was very expensive.
In Oklahoma what county has the most people?
Oklahoma County
What was the population of Germans in the 1930s?
In the 1930s, the population of Germany was approximately 67 million people.
Information on 1930s boxing?
people hit people
Art in the 1930s?
big people
