"S.J. (Interviewer): Could you tell me a little bit about the dust storms?"Criswell: Our cotton would be about five or six inches tall and it looked like a fire had gone over that field of cotton. It would just kill it and then in a few days it would be dead. . . I've seen it take out a whole big field of cotton just like that. We lived on the sandy land. The storms would start up in Kansas or somewhere. These local sand storms could sometimes could ruin your crop. . . They'd come just like a big old black cloud and they soon covered everything. . . A lot of the crops that were older it would just damage. You couldn't start over again. If the cotton was small enough you could start over again. It would just damage it so it wouldn't grow right."Source: Vera Ruth Woodwall Criswell, Interview from the California Odyssey archive, 1981The phenomena described in the excerpt is an example of which of the following developments in the 1930s?

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