Crossword Vocabulary

Investment in stocks, property, or other ventures in hope of gain but risk of loss
Share prices on the NY stock exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor of the Great Depression
The worst economic in the history of the industrialized world from 1929-1939
Act implementing protectionist trade polices
A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression
An area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsustainable farming practice
The return of someone to their own country
Series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations
series of 30 evening radio addresses given by the US
corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in US commercial banks and savings institutions
A company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity
Public work relief program for unemployed, unmarried men
Goal to eliminate cut throat competition by bringing industry, labor, and govt. together to create codes of fair practices and set prices
Budgeted 7 billion dollars to be spent on the construction of public works
Employed millions of people to carry out public works projects including construction of buildings and roads
System of old age benefits for workers, victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.