Three years after the crash of 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls to its lowest point of the Great Depression. The drop reflected the wider economic decline facing the country, which saw investments wiped out and production and consumption levels plummet. The number of unemployed Americans, many of them impoverished World War I veterans, also grew dramatically.
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