The Great Depression and he New Deal

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Across
  1. 4. a person who risks money in hopes of a financial profit
  2. 5. a system for buying and selling stocks in corporations
  3. 6. to take possession of a property because of defaults on payments
  4. 7. a monetary system in which the value of currency is defined in terms of gold
  5. 8. minor officers of the courts
  6. 9. a mosaic flooring that has pieces of marble or granite set in mortar and is then highly polishes
  7. 11. an agent who negotiates an exchange between a buyer and a seller
  8. 12. closing of banks during the great depression to avoid bank runs
  9. 14. abbreviated term for poliomyelitis, an acute infectious disease affecting the skeletal muscles, often resulting in permanent disability and deformity
  10. 16. buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest
  11. 17. to cover financial losses
  12. 19. monthly plan made to pay off the cost of an item when buying it on credit
Down
  1. 1. projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use
  2. 2. act of buying stocks at great risk with the anticipation that the prices will rise
  3. 3. an index, or tool, that measures the performance of the stocks of 30 large companies
  4. 8. persistent and heavy demands by a bank´s depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money
  5. 10. 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 received pressure
  6. 12. a long period of rising stock prices
  7. 13. a homeless and usually penniless wanderer
  8. 15. demand by a broker that investors pay back loans made for stocks purchased on margin
  9. 18. aid in the form of money or supplies for those in need