Hoover dam

2. radio broadcasts made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Americans
5. minor officers of the courts
10. a monetary system in which the value of a currency is defined in terms of gold
12. a homeless and usually penniless wanderer
13. An index, or tool, that measures the performance of the stocks of 30 large companies
16. abbreviated term for poliomyelitis is an acute infectious disease affecting the skeletal muscles, often resulting in permanent disability deformity
18. a person who risks money in hopes of a financial profit
19. persistent and heavy demands by a bank´s depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money
20. closing of banks during the Great Depression to avoid bank runs
21. buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest

1. projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use
3. monthly plan made to play off the cost of an item when buying it on credit
4. act of buying stocks at great risk with the anticipation that the prices will rise
6. a dam that is curved upstream in order to transmit the major part of the water load to the abutments, or the part of a structure that directly receives pressure
7. to take possession of a property because of defaults on payments
8. aid in the form of money or supplies for those in need
9. to cover financial losses
11. a mosaic flooring that has pieces of marble or granite set in mortar and is then highly polished
14. an agent who negotiates an exchange between a buyer and a seller
15. a system for buying and selling stocks in corporations
17. demand by a broker that investors pay back loans made for stocks purchased on margin
19. a long period of rising stock prices