Across
- 1. minor officers of the courts
- 4. to cover financial loses
- 6. closing of banks during the Great Depression to avoid bank runs
- 7. a dam that is curved upstream in order to transmit the major part of the water load
- 10. buying stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price
- 11. an agent who negotiates an exchange between buyer and seller
- 12. projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built for public use
- 14. aid in form of money or supplies
- 15. act of buying stocks at a great risk with the anticipation that the price will rise
- 17. abbreviated term for poliomyelitis
- 18. persistent and heavy demands by a banks depositors
Down
- 2. monthly plan made to pay off the cost of an item
- 3. a monetary system in which the value of currency is defined
- 5. to take possession of a property because of defaults on payments
- 6. a long period of rising stock prices
- 8. a mosaic flooring that has pieces of marble or granite
- 9. a homeless and usually penniless wanderer
- 10. demand by a broker that investigates payback loans made from stock parched margin
- 13. a person who risks money in hope of a financial gain
- 16. a system for buying and selling in corporations