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Droughts and dustbowls USA: 1939
NARRATOR: (INAUDIBLE) states face untold loss in the most disastrous
dry spell in the nation's history. This shrivelled maize would normally
be 5 feet high at this time. Farmers are boring their land as best they
can, desperately seeking water. This map shows government plans for a
100,000-square-mile forest belt from Canada to Texas. £25 million
will be expended planting trees, whose spreading roots trap the water
in the wet season, keeping the soil moist during the rainless months.
Meanwhile, cattle starve and thirst by millions. Pastures are bare, water
only a dream ... nibbling a few stunted shrubs, gaunt and emaciated. In
Texas, 61,000 cattle were shot. America scans cloudless skies, praying
for rain.
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