Meaning of dustbowl | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.
2. The central region of the United States during the 1930s.
3. The 1930s period.

Examples

“Concepts like reform, sanctions or KwaNatal indabas have little meaning in this dustbowl, which is host to more than a million people relocated from "white" farms and "black spots" in Natal, apart from the hundreds of thousands who lived there before the removals started here in the Sixties.”

“The moment they were unleashed the dogs reached the Hindu graveyard in quick time, and then reached the abandoned hockey playground, now a dustbowl, and from there they ran straight to Pandi's thatched hut and circled it twice.”

“Taking up space in the dustbowl of his bedroom was a Marshall JCM 800 bass amplifier.”

“Because of this general situation, namely, the factor that thousands of citizens in California because of evictions and suspension of income were forced to move into squatter camps, and that these squatter camps were to some extent used by the state and county for the purpose of segregating the destitute unemployed, many such communities were actually in existence in California by 1933 when the dustbowl influx began to make itself felt in this state.”

“It was not until the end of the decade that Hollywood could take a more detached look at the social consequences of the Depression in John Ford's 1940 film of John Steinbeck's dustbowl novel The Grapes of Wrath.”

“It's a long way from earlier circuits, such as Woody Guthrie's dustbowl odyssey and Pete Seeger's union halls.”

“When the dustbowl refugees from Arkansas and Oklahoma moved to California, job opportunities for the one million Mexicans who had crossed the border decreased, and about half of these workers returned to their country (Shotwell 1961:74).”

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