Baking powder is made of baking soda and the right amount of acid to react with the soda (it also includes corn starch to keep the ingredients from prematurely reacting in the privacy of their container).
Making the world better, one answer at a time. The Dust Bowl affected the agricultural areas and damaged cash crops, that most farmers made a living on. Also severe droughts were held that affected the land in the southern plains. Economy was declining as most farmers were poor.
Second the Dust Bowl drought was unique in its spatial pattern - further north than is typical for a La NiÃ±a forced, or La NiÃ±a plus warm subtropical North Atlantic forced, drought. See our page Was the Dust Bowl Predictable? Did the dust storms impact either the intensity of the drought or its area of impact?