This was how Associated Press reporter Robert Geiger started off his April 15, 1935, dispatch : “Three little words achingly familiar on a Western farmer’s tongue, rule life in the X-Y of the continent — if it rains.” This is the first usage of X-Y to denote a certain series of natural [and man-influenced] disasters in the 1930s.
For the 2014 sci-fi movie Interstellar, a dystopian and apocalyptic Earth is shown. The setting of Earth [ravaged and destroyed] was inspired by the X-Y disasters. X-Y?
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=> Dust Bowl, a series of dust storms in the 1930s in the United States.
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