| Show M 10 W EST PLAINS A PILLAR OF DUST A giant dun colored mantle of soil dust from the middle west swirled over the atlantic coast region recently from washington to boston almost obscuring the sun with its eerie haze new yorks skyscrapers were shrouded in the gritty atoms of dust that have hare been carried from the hot drouth parched prairies the dust absorbed all of the humidity in the air and dropped it to pear near record lows iowa the humidity in new york at that time was 90 now it is down in the thirties the dust cloud WAS estima estimated tied to be 1500 miles long and d miles wide dr E I 1 E free said recent teits the had made with a jet type dust counter show that the air in the city contained 40 tons of ct dust per cubic mile he estimated that over I 1 the e city alone there were tons ot of solid matter everything in the city has been coated with a fine but gritty cover ing in of brownish dirt dirt that seeps through window casements and under doors from new tors lors state pennsylvania new jersey and new pig and came reports of the great cloud salt lake tribune may 11 |
