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Compounding the misery of the Depression, a long drought in the middle of the 1930s brought hardship to millions. Farmers throughout the Midwest literally watched the fruits of their work dry up and blow away. The farmlands became nicknamed "dust bowls" because of the winds busy drawing the topsoil away. The dust storms caused by the drought were so great that soil was deposited as far east as New York and the Atlantic Ocean. As calamitous as the drought was, however, it combined with the AAA to reduce drastically the number of farmers and farm acreage in the United States, thus driving up prices and facilitating recovery.
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