Across
- 3. a basket of stocks representing the 30 biggest publicly owned companies in the US
- 4. a deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of crude dwellings
- 10. a place where free food is served to those who are homeless or destitute
- 11. a group of demonstraters- veterans of US involvement in a world war l
- 13. getting a loan from your brokerage and using the money from the loan to invest in more securities than you can buy with your available cash
- 15. a humanitarian aid organization
- 16. a privilege of delayed payment extended to a borrower or buyer by the lender or seller
- 17. the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years
- 18. supports prices that the government sets and maintains by surplus goods
- 19. enaction to protect the US farmers from foreign competition by increasing tariffs on certain foreign goods
Down
- 1. an american politician who served as the 31st president of the US
- 2. a US federal law passed under president herbert hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership
- 5. share prices on the new york stock exchange completely collapsed becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the great depression
- 6. a government corporation administered by the US federal government between 1932-1957
- 7. an american politician who served four terms as governer of New York
- 8. an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded
- 9. the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence
- 11. a line of people waiting to receive free food
- 12. a concrete arch gravity dam in the black canyon of the colorado river
- 14. the action or process of deflating or being deflated