Where did Dust Bowl farmers go during the great depression? The displaced farmers became the migrants described in John Steinbeck's, Grapes of Wrath. Families from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas, packed what tâ¦hey could in cars and trucks and headed west.
Actually, the term is as old as the Navy, or perhaps older. Nautically, a lanyard is a short rope or wire rove through deadeyes to hold and tauten standing rigging. Lanyards are also known as the rope that is pulled to fire a cannon from a ship. Pirates actually using lanyards! We love that image here.
The Foot of Hawkins Street scrapyard sits on twenty-seven acres of industrial parkland, at the edge of Newarkâs old Ironbound District. The yardâs metallic topographyâlarge piles of scrap metal, mainly of steel, but also of copper, aluminum, and stainless steelâcan be seen from the West Side high-rises in Manhattan. Sometimes, when the sun hits the piles, they glitter like honey-coated breakfast cereal.