The Great Depression and he New Deal

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