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dust-bowl days Hist. 
the depression years of the 1930's, so called in reference to the dust storms and drought on the prairies.
See also: Dirty Thirties
- 1953 It is the land which, in 1952, fulfilled its promise . . . which had a hollow ring in the dust-bowl days of the hungry thirties.
- 1964 [This] is considerably higher than the national average and several times more than farmers earned during the harsh, dust-bowl years of the 1930s.
- 1966 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.
- 1953 It is the land which, in 1952, fulfilled its promise . . . which had a hollow ring in the dust-bowl days of the hungry thirties.