DUST IN AMERICA
VAST WHEAT-GROWING AREAS MENACED. REPETITION OP DROUGHT IN PROSPECT. AN EXCEPTIONALLY SERIOUS SITUATION. : (’Received Friday, 7.0 p.m.) KANSAS CITY, March 21. The Middle West, which has been in the grip of continuous dust storms since the beginning of the week, to-day finds its situation exceptionally serious, as a repetition of last year’s drought is threaten* ed. The dust storm area to-day extended from Texas to Dakata and from Oklahoma to Hlinois. Hun- , dreds of thousands of acres of fine wheat lands are being all but denuded and other areas are being covered with a plant-stifling layer of dust.
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Wairarapa Age, 23 March 1935, Page 5
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