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- 4. Homeless Americans began to build their own camps on the edges of cities, where they lived in shacks and other crude shelters.
- 7. the highest concrete arch dam in the United States.
- 10. government assistance in maintaining the levels of market prices regardless of supply or demand.
- 11. 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
- 14. American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York
- 16. United States stock market crashed
- 17. a place where people who cannot afford, or do not have the means to feed themselves, can get a free or cheap meal.
- 19. cash payments or “the dole”
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- 1. a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States.
- 2. 31st president
- 3. the action or process of deflating or being deflated.
- 5. agency authorized by the U.S. government to loan money to assist the nation's ailing banks after the stock market crash of 1929 and during the Great Depression that followed.
- 6. a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
- 8. the drought-affected south central United States in the aftermath of horrific dust storms.
- 9. the risky nineteenth-century investment practice or strategy of buying cheaply large quantities of land
- 12. record of how a person handles money and debt, including credit card accounts and other loans.
- 13. intended to lower the cost of home ownership by creating a network of government-sponsored banks and boards to provide mortgage credit.
- 15. gathering of probably 10,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans
- 16. a line of needy persons assembled to receive food given as charity,
- 18. a long and severe recession in an economy or market.