Across
- 3. to supply electricity to rural communities.
- 8. provided assistance for the unemployed, supporting nearly five million households each month by funding work projects for more than 20 million people.
- 9. purpose was to improve the lot of the poor farmers
- 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.
- 11. provided construction jobs for more than four million
- 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.
- 13. focused on stimulating the growth of the building industry
- 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. was to merge the administrative responsibilities for regulating broadcasting and wire communications into one centralized agency
- 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
- 4. developing the Tennessee River watershed
- 5. successfully restored confidence in the nation's banks and encouraged savings
- 6. employed more than eight million people to build roads and highways, bridges, schools, airports, parks, and other public projects
- 7. achieved by hiring more than 2.5 million young men to work on environmental projects