The correct word is "At the beginning of the 1930s, San Francisco (along with the rest of the country) was reeling from the effect of the great depression."
It was a period of economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world that was caused by the stock market collapse in the late 1920s.
Based on the passage given, the correct word is "At the beginning of the 1930s, San Francisco (along with the rest of the country) was reeling from the effect of the great depression."
Therefore, the Option A is correct.
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