Across
- 2. a person who risks money in hopes of a financial profit
- 3. a homeless and usually penniless wanderer
- 7. a period of severe dust storms in the midwest ( 2 words)
- 8. radio broadcasts made by Franklin D. Roosevelt to americans (2 wrds)
- 10. to cover financial losses
- 12. closing of banks during the Great Depression to avoid bank runs (2 words)
- 13. an acute infectious disease affecting the skeletal muscles, FDR had it
- 14. buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest
- 16. persistent and heavy demands by a bank’s depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money ( 2 words)
- 17. a system for buying and selling stocks in corporations ( 2 words)
- 19. aid in the form of money or supplies for those in need
Down
- 1. to take possession of a property because of defaults on payments
- 4. method of boycotting work by sitting down at work and refusing to leave the establishment ( 2 words)
- 5. minor officers of the courts
- 6. something that promotes well-being or is a useful aid
- 9. a long period of rising stock prices (2 words)
- 11. projects such as highways, parks, libraries built with public funds for public use (2 words)
- 12. an agent who negotiates an exchange between a buyer and a seller
- 15. the day the stock market crashed (2 words)
- 18. a mosaic flooring the has pieces of marble or granite set in mortar and is then highly polished