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Dust Bowl

Definition: Dust Bowl

Dust Bowl

Noun

1. A region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Dust Bowl

DomainDefinition

Public Administration

Ascending overheated air carrying fine particles of debris and dust suspended in it. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Dust Bowl

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

During the Great Depression, in portions of the North American Great Plains there was a years-long drought, leading to soil erosion and dust storms. Crops failed, forcing many farmers to leave in search of work elsewhere, notably California. Many of the displaced were from Oklahoma, and became known as Okies.

In South Dakota on November 11, 1933 a very strong dust storm striped topsoil from desiccated farmlands in just one of a series of disastrous dust storms that year. Then on May 11, 1934 a strong two-day dust storm removed massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst such storms of the Dust Bowl.

See also: Woody Guthrie, The Grapes of Wrath

Further reading

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dust Bowl."

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Commercial Usage: Dust Bowl

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Books

  • Children of the Dust Bowl the True Story (reference)

  • Dust Bowl Descent (reference)

  • Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination (Rural America) (reference)

  • The Place Beyond the Dust Bowl (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Dust Bowl

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Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas Dust bowl surveying in Texas. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Wind erosion carries topsoil from farmland during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Unknown.

Sever water erosion on a farm during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Unknown.

Migrants in California during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Dorothea Lange.

A farmer inspects his wind eroded fields and during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Unknown.

A great 'roller' moves across the land during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Unknown.

Severe ersion during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Unknown.

Cultivating cotton on a farm during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Unknown.

The Dust Bowl days in Oklahoma. Credit: Unknown.

Flooding of North Main Street in Fort Worth, Texas during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Unknown.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dust Bowl

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dust bowl

267

dust bowl of 1930s

7

oklahoma dust bowl

7

dust bowl 1930

7

dust bowl history

4

dust bowl child

3

the great dust bowl

3
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Modern Translation: Dust Bowl

Language Translations for "dust bowl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

støvtrombe. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zandhoos. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

nokipölykulkeuma. (various references)

   

French

  

trombe de poussière. (various references)

   

German

  

Staubhose (dancing devil, dust devil, dust whirl, sand whirl). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κονιορτοστρόβιλος,φαινόμενο dust bowl. (various references)

   

Italian

  

dust bowl, tromba di polvere, Erosione eolica (aeolian erosion, deflation, wind erosion, wind scour). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ustday owlbay

   

Portuguese

  

tromba de poeira. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

название засушливых районов на западе США, пустыня (desert, waste, wasteland, wilderness). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tromba de polvo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dust bowl, uttorkat område, nybliven öken. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kuraklık bölgesi, çöle dönmüş arazi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dust Bowl

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-l-o-s-t-u-w"

-1 letter: wouldst.

-2 letters: doubts, sublot.

-3 letters: blots, blows, bolds, bolts, bolus, bouts, bowls, dolts, doubt, lotus, louts, tolus, wolds, would.

-4 letters: blot, blow, bods, bold, bolt, bots, bout, bowl, bows, buds, bust, buts, dols, dolt, dost, dots, dows, dubs, duos, dust, lobs, lost, lots, loud, lout, lows, lust, olds, ouds, oust, outs, owls, slob, slot.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet 		5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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