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The term Dust Bowl was coined in 1935 when an AP reporter, Robert Geiger, used it to describe the drought-affected south central United States in the aftermath of horrific dust storms.
In his April 15 release for the Washington, D.C., Evening Star he wrote, "Three little words—achingly familiar on a Western farmer's tongue—rule life today in the dust bowl of the continent. If it rains." Geiger used the term "dust bowl" for the first time in print.