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What is a dustbowl?

What is a dustbowl? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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.
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All the water's left town in Steinbeck's Depression-era classic about the migration of dustbowl sodbusters to the promised land of southern California.
Liverpool Acoustic is joining forces with Acoustic Dustbowl for a joint Christmas Party to see out 2013 in style.
The dustbowl years of the 1930s drove many mid-western farmers off the land, but the discovery of the Ogallala, a huge underground aquifer stretching from South Dakota to west Texas, transformed agriculture's fortunes.
Another challenge in a country so ravaged by climate change is to convince sceptics of the viability of bringing water and sanitation to people living in a dustbowl.
Penniless and starving, farmers left their land in droves in the dustbowl days of the Great Depression.
Tigray, the once-lush region that in the first millennium hosted a wealthy interna-tional trading empire, is now a dustbowl circled by jagged crystalline rocks swept bare of topsoil.

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