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Show "The Dust Bowl has caught the attention of the whole Nation: Four million acres, an area two-thirds two-thirds the State of Maryland, exclusive ex-clusive of its water surface, practically ruined..60 million more acres going. That is bad. It represents repre-sents a waste so stupendous that the human mind is incapable of comprehending it. Yet water erosion ero-sion has ruined eight Marylands have been in some part hurt." and another 300 million acres Gerald W. Johnson in the Baltimore Balti-more Evening Sun,' 1936. |