he means the stock market crash where the dollar bill became worth nothing.
Explanation:
March 4, 1933, was maybe the Great Depression's breaking point. The securities exchange had dove 85% from its high in 1929, and almost one-fourth of the workforce was jobless. In the urban areas, jobless men were arranging for soup and bread. In rustic territories, ranchers whose land was being abandoned were talking straightforwardly of upset. The group that accumulated before the Capitol that day to watch Franklin D. Roosevelt's Inauguration had everything except abandoned America. They were, a journalist watched, "as silent as a group of mourners around a grave."
