the dust bowl was the result of a series of dry years in the 1930s where millions of pounds of topsoil were desiccated and blown from the great plains and deposited hundreds of miles away what most likely contributed to the loss of fertile soil during the dust bowl and the years that immediately followed that event

When the telephone rings incessantly, what is it that the men want to have happen? they want the phone to be answered because it is jangling their nerves. they want mr. frank to go to the office and answer it because they are afraid it might be bad news. they want mr. frank to go to the office because they think it might be miep. they want mr frank to ignore the phone.