Although he had negotiated cooperation with the brewer, Colin's imported wine business did not start immediately.

First, he needs to set up an import company to specifically handle related business.

Secondly, the repeal of a bill is not just a matter of words. It took nearly a year or so from the time Roosevelt officially started the repeal process to the repeal of Prohibition. In other words, during this period, there were

Sufficient time for Colin to complete the preliminary purchasing and preparation work.

In fact, he had already arranged for Jack Leibovitz to rent a suitable warehouse in a port near London specifically to store purchased Scotch whiskey and gin. Once the Eighteenth Amendment was passed

After it was officially abolished, this batch of wine was shipped to the United States to seize the wine market.

After dealing with matters related to imported wine, Colin's footsteps did not stop because of this.

He knew very well that with Roosevelt taking office, although the Great Depression could not be completely ended, the economy of New York and even the United States would undergo earth-shaking changes.

The collapse of Hoover has proved that the negative attitude of laissez-faire will not make the economy better, but will get worse and worse. Therefore, as the successor, Roosevelt is obviously impossible to continue the old path of the other party's failure, and it is almost impossible to strengthen the intervention in the economic market.

is an established fact.

Colin, who is one of the drafters of the opponent's "New Deal", is naturally particularly aware of this.

During this period, as the anti-world affairs came to an end, he devoted more energy to the management of the positive world.

Not only did it arrange for Jack Leibovitz to go to the UK to find British brewers such as Dewar and Gordon to discuss cooperation issues, but it also allowed people to look for some objects in their own memories at home.

Unlike the convenient Internet channels of later generations, during the Great Depression, even telephone calls were not convenient.

If you want to find someone in this era, it is not a problem that can be solved by just typing on the keyboard.

Even with the basic information provided by Colin, it took almost half a month to find the target.

By the time Colin received the letter and confirmed it was correct, it was already a week later.

This letter from San Francisco gave Colin an idea.

However, before he could take action, what happened in New York forced him to stop.

Because the sandstorm is coming.

Yes, the 1930s was not only a time of the Great Depression, but also a time of raging sandstorms.

Throughout the 1930s, unprecedented sandstorms swept across the western United States, affecting Chicago and even... New York. This unprecedented sandstorm began in 1930 and lasted for nearly ten years. Therefore, throughout the 1930s,

Also known as the "Dirty Thirties".

This huge sandstorm disaster that spread across the entire western United States is both a natural disaster and a man-made disaster.

Originally, there were large areas of grassland in the United States, where Indians hunted bison for a living. However, with the development of animal husbandry and agriculture, especially the soaring price of wheat after World War I, farmers in the south began to reclaim the grassland into farmland.

It also caused huge damage to natural vegetation.

In the early 1930s, a major drought eventually caused a huge dust storm.

The biggest one occurred on May 12, 1934, which lasted for three consecutive days.

By 1934, an estimated 35 million acres of farmland had been reduced to useless land, directly affecting nearly 400,000 square kilometers, and the Dust Bowl had a long-lasting impact on the region's economy.

Meanwhile, ravaged by the Dust Bowl, some 2.5 million people left Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma in the 1930s.

This was the largest migration in American history, with 440,000 lives lost in Oklahoma alone.

The displacement of millions of people from their homes also left countless families impoverished, and the onset of the Great Depression cast a shadow over migration.

"...Don't go out, prepare handkerchiefs to protect your mouth and nose. An unprecedented huge sandstorm will appear in New York in three days. Please be prepared for protection and pay attention to personal safety."

During the radio broadcast, the radio station constantly called on the public to prepare for the coming sandstorm.

It has been almost two years since the dust storm swept across the entire West, but not everyone believes in its existence.

Especially people living in New York, they have never had the experience of sandstorms before, so it is difficult for them to have too much emotion about this disaster. Many people regard it as a rumor on the radio, and even more people are not aware of it.

Don't take it seriously.

"This is New York."

"How could a sandstorm be blown so far..."

Even the people at the Courier Newspaper were somewhat dubious about the rumors of sandstorms. Even Old John, who had lived in New York the longest, had never experienced a sandstorm in his life. They could not imagine what that overwhelming black storm was.

Feel.

Not to mention Old John and the others, even Colin wouldn't have known much about the sandstorms of this era if it weren't for the books that specifically recorded the "Dirty Thirties".

It was precisely because of the "Dirty Thirties" that he understood that the threat of sandstorms was greater than imagined.

So, these days I was trapped in New York by the sandstorm.

Colin not only asked Little John to collect the impact of the raging sandstorms in the past few years, but also drew it into the story of "Superman".

…

"Extra number, extra number!"

"The latest issue of "Superman" is out!"

On the streets of New York, covering his mouth and nose with a piece of cloth, Jimmy ran through the streets waving a newspaper.

"Give me a copy of the Daily Courier..."

He stretched out his hand to stop Jimmy. The passers-by's eyes paused on the rag on the newsboy's face, and they couldn't help but wonder.

"What are you doing?"

Passing a folded newspaper to the pedestrian in front of him, Jimmy stretched out his hand to pull the cloth in front of his mouth and said in a low voice: "This is to protect against the arrival of sandstorms. It was specially given by Mr. Colin of the Courier Daily."

Prepared by the newsboys."

"Sandstorm?"

Hearing the newsboy's answer, the pedestrian frowned: "Isn't this a rumor? How could a sandstorm come to New York?"

"You wouldn't think so if you read today's Courier Daily."

After receiving the coin from the passerby, Jimmy carefully placed it away and pulled the cloth on his face before turning around and continuing to sell the newspaper in his hand.

Looking away from the newsboy's leaving figure, the passerby turned his gaze to the Courier Daily in his hand with some confusion.

“Dirty America!”

The first thing that catches your eye is the headline in huge words on the front page.

Pedestrians originally thought that the dirty words mentioned in the newspapers were referring to the poor public security and crime problems in the country, but unexpectedly, they were referring to the sandstorms that occurred in the west.

Immediately afterwards, what appeared under the title were shocking photos.

These photos were collected by Colin specifically for Little John. The photos of the raging sandstorms in recent years are from the town of Cuiti, Texas. The entire town has been abandoned due to the raging sandstorms.

In the photo, a wooden shed is buried in the gravel, and only the beams of the roof are faintly visible. In the distance are bare trees, and the dead branches of the orchard break like charcoal.

"Is that a school over there?"

What shocked passers-by the most was a photo of the school.

The entire school was turned into ruins under the impact of the sandstorm, with only one chimney and two walls still standing.

"Are the sandstorms really coming back?"

Looking at the shocking photos in the "Courier Daily" in front of him, the pedestrian felt that his breathing had become a little suffocated. He looked up at the gloomy sky in New York, and his heart subconsciously tightened a little.

"Maybe I should have made some preparations earlier."

With uneasiness and fear of the sandstorm in their hearts, pedestrians continued to flip through the newspapers in their hands.

The "Superman" serialized in this issue also seems to be very different from the past.

At the beginning of the comic, the first thing that appeared was an extremely vast scene. There were no plants on the black land, not even stones. A black figure was moving in it.

Immediately afterwards, in the next frame, the figure will raise the shovel to the ground and shovel down, and a large amount of sand will be shoveled up by him.

The figure looked up, and a black wall appeared at the end of the screen.

Metropolis, Courier Journal.

Clark: "Giant dust storm?"

Superman learned the news about the sandstorm from the editor.

Editor: "Yes, a huge sandstorm has swept across the entire west. Kent, I need you to go there and take relevant photos. Some meteorologists predict that this sandstorm may come to the metropolis."

After receiving a task from the editor, Clark went to the town where the sandstorm was most severe.

Austin: "You are?"

Clark: "Clark, I am a reporter from the Courier Journal, specifically here to investigate matters related to sandstorms."

In the small town, Clark saw an old man who still lived there, and learned about the sandstorm from his mouth.

Austin: "At that time, I would be blind for many days."

The animals were blinded and suffocated to death.

Farmers cut open their stomachs and found that their stomachs were full of fine sand. The horses ran wildly in the storm, and the children coughed until they vomited. They were dying of what doctors called "pneumoconiosis". In despair, every family sent their children away

After leaving, hug your lover or hold someone else's hand. Such instinctive actions will cause both people to fall because the static electricity generated by the dust storm is too strong.
To be continued...