1933-1934: The Dust Bowl, Gangsters In Pinstripe Suits, Pimping For Hitler, The Merchants of Death And An All-American Coup

1930s: UNITED STATES. The catastrophe of The Great Depression is compounded by drought and then massive soil erosion in the midwest. This new disaster becomes known as the Dust Bowl. Most of the affected area usually averages about twenty inches of rain per year, barely enough to sustain agriculture. But, in the early thirties, rainfall drops by almost a third. Crop yields fall by up to seventy