From the story of a plow that breaks plains in the Great Plains, United States. Farm machinery and useless farm. Wrecked farm equipment. A boundary of barbed wires on the farms. A wind mill, damaged electricity lines and a homesteader. Rugged terrain and useless farms. A dust storm during the dust bowl era renders a farm useless.
People leave their homes in the Great Plains, United States, during the dust bowl and Great Depression. A tower and damaged houses on plain lands. A girl walks near a house. People leave their homes with their belongings. They head towards the west. Views of deserts. People live in tents. Motorcars arrive near a tent. Women unload carts. Two men seated outside the tent. Farm machinery and equipment on the ground. Useless farms and barren trees.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses a gathering at Chautauqua, New York. President Roosevelt denounces war. He states, 'I have seen war,' and goes on to state, 'I hate war.' The people applaud.
"Hobos" and homeless are relocated to other places from Los Angeles, California, enforcing anti-vagrancy laws during the Great Depression. Dilapidated shanty houses and shacks in an area filled with hobos (sometimes called a "jungle.") Policemen talking to a man next to a shack. Vagrant and unemployed men walking on a railroad being escorted away. Railroad train arriving near a station at night and police run beside it looking for hobos on the train. A sign board reads: 'Arizona State Line'. Hobos in police custody empty their pockets and are fingerprinted.
A demonstration by unemployed people in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Buildings in an area. Men seated on the steps of a building. Some of the men sleeping on the floor inside the building. Children seated at a table eating food. They demand immediate action by the state to provide relief funds to the unemployed suffering from the Great Depression.
Supply of free water in drought-stricken city of Louisburg in Kansas during Great Depression. Tank cars carrying water in the area. A banner on a tank car reads: 'Free Water from Kansas City, Missouri to Louisburg, Kansas'. People gather to have water. A tank car at a rail road.
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