The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 2. Aid for the needy; welfare
  2. 3. The act of buying stocks at a great risk with the anticipation that the prices will rise
  3. 5. A monthly plan made to pay off the cost of an item when buying it on credit
  4. 6. A system for buying and selling stocks in corporation
  5. 7. abbreviated term for poliomyelitis, an acute infectious disease affecting the skeletal muscles, often resulting in permenant disability and deformity
  6. 11. A serial drama on television or radio using melodramatic situations
  7. 13. A penniless wanderer
  8. 14. Buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest
  9. 15. A long period of rising stock prices
Down
  1. 1. Minor officer of the courts
  2. 4. Projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use
  3. 8. To take possession of a property from a mortgagor because of defaults on payments
  4. 9. Demand by a broker that investors payback loans made of stocks purchased on margin
  5. 10. a monetary standard in which one ounce of gold equals a set number of dollars
  6. 12. Persistent and heavy demands by a bank's depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money