Sentence:  Moreover the centralization of our economy during the 1920 s , the dislocations of the <WSD>Depression</WSD> , the common ethos of Materialism everywhere , all contributed in various ways to the face-lifting that replaced Mike Fink and the Great Gatsby with the anonymous physiognomy of the Little People . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment