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The Dust Bowl
Recovery
In 1935, 850 million acres of topsoil are swept off the Great Plains, with more dust storms to come. President Franklin Roosevelt’s inner circle does not want the area to turn into an “Arabian Desert.”
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The storms and the Great Depression continued.
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The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.