Connor Children Clap Their Hands for Joy On Getting News at Grandmother's Home
Date: 18 July 1934
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Lucio Chua Tan Sr. (traditional Chinese: 陳永栽; simplified Chinese: 陈永栽; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Éng-chai; pinyin: Chén Yǒngzāi; born July 17, 1934) is a Filipino billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He presides over the Filipino conglomerate company LT Group, Inc., a company with extensive business interests in sports, banking, airline, liquor, tobacco, real estate, beverages, and education. As of November 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$2.8 billion.
Read more...The July 17, 1934 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 197 day of the year. President of the United States was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Date: 18 July 1934
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Date: 18 July 1934
Removals, including stock of Assoc Apparel Industries Inc
Date: 17 July 1934
With stocks displaying what the brokers speak of as "softness," there was little in yesterday's market to indicate any change in the general speculative attitude. If anything, the market was bearish, or at least pessimistic in its inferences.
Date: 17 July 1934
Speculative selling of the dollar abroad, on the news of the general strike in San Francisco, caused yesterday a sharp advance in the principal foreign exchanges here. Francs rose 1 point to 6.60 7/3 cents, a movement which was equivalent to a fall of .2 cent in the dollar to 100.3 per cent of parity.
Date: 18 July 1934
Another day of intense heat and no rains in the great producing region west of the Mississippi River increased anxiety over the crop outlook and sent prices on the Cotton Exchange into new high territory again yesterday. After a slightly lower opening, quotations advanced on steady outside buying orders, which carried the list up about $1.50 a bale and left quotations 3 to 7 points higher than on Monday.
Date: 17 July 1934
Highest temperatures of the season throughout Oklahoma, with no moisture either in that State or in Texas over Sunday, increased the gravity of a situation already without precedent in forty years and prices on the Cotton Exchange rose yesterday more than $1 a bale.