14 new deals

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Across
  1. 3. to supply electricity to rural communities.
  2. 8. provided assistance for the unemployed, supporting nearly five million households each month by funding work projects for more than 20 million people.
  3. 9. purpose was to improve the lot of the poor farmers
  4. 10. purpose was to protect the rights of organized labor by legalizing practices such as "closed shops" in which only union members could work and collectively bargain.
  5. 11. provided construction jobs for more than four million
  6. 12. was to administer a national pension fund for retired persons, an unemployment insurance system, and a public assistance program for dependent mothers, children, and the physically disabled.
  7. 13. focused on stimulating the growth of the building industry
  8. 14. established the minimum wage, which at the time was twenty-five cents an hour. It also set the standard for the 40-hour work week and banned the use of child labor.
Down
  1. 1. was to merge the administrative responsibilities for regulating broadcasting and wire communications into one centralized agency
  2. 2. created primarily to restore the stability of the stock market after the crash of October 1929 and to prevent corporate abuses relating to the offering and sale of securities
  3. 4. developing the Tennessee River watershed
  4. 5. successfully restored confidence in the nation's banks and encouraged savings
  5. 6. employed more than eight million people to build roads and highways, bridges, schools, airports, parks, and other public projects
  6. 7. achieved by hiring more than 2.5 million young men to work on environmental projects