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Dirty Thirties Hist. 
the depression years of the 1930's, so called in reference to the dust storms and drought on the prairies.
See also: dust-bowl days Hungry Thirties
- 1958 To some of the prairie provinces last month, the weather looked like a recipe for disaster, possibly even a repeat performance of the "Dirty Thirties," when high winds roaring over bare, parched earth sheared off millions of tons of topsoil, forced abandonment of 30 % of the land in south Saskatchewan alone.
- 1963 And it was during those depression days, the dirty Thirties, that Jodoin met trade unionists. . . .
- 1966 [Book-Review] This book gives a very sharp portrait of the Province of Saskatchewan in those terrible "dust-bowl" years, the dirty thirties, as they were called.
- 1958 To some of the prairie provinces last month, the weather looked like a recipe for disaster, possibly even a repeat performance of the "Dirty Thirties," when high winds roaring over bare, parched earth sheared off millions of tons of topsoil, forced abandonment of 30 % of the land in south Saskatchewan alone.