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The Dust Bowl

Mr. Huff

Raymond Huff, Superindendent of Schools of Union County hired the entire town to build the new high school in Clayton, NM. He used the WPA to save the County.

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The storms and the Great Depression continued.
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The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.
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