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Congress' General Accounting Office figures it cost the U.S. government some $69 million between Jul

Recent advances in the field of allergy and clinical immunology are making significant contributions

U.S. National Institutes of Health researchers have found an amino acid compound that proved in labo

Eleven private airplanes took off Friday on a 650-mile charity airlift, carrying 1,200 pounds of foo

Litton Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division at Pascagoula, Miss., has won a $378.7 million Navy

Japan plans tax reductions and other changes in order to stimulate commodities futures trading here,

Reagan to Address Heritage FoundationPresident Reagan will address the Heritage Foundation h

State regulators this week will take up complaints from Northeast Utilities customers who don't thin

When Lynn-Sayers McHattie, a young designer, walks between her workshop and the main office at Tweed

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Oil prices were marking time last week as trading dried up ahead of the key OPEC meeting next week.<

Combination Vessel Sold to NorwegiansOSLO, Norway - Herlofson Management A/S has paid $12 mi

San Francisco Port Director Eugene Gartland announced he will resign early next year. The mo

Export Tax Seminar. Foreign Sales Corporation and Domestic International Sales Corporation Intercomp

St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. is asking its drivers to do a lot more than just drive a truck. T

Top Stories: U.S. legislators in the months ahead will be considering a successor to the Caribbea

A division of the state Environmental Conservation Department said a Washington County farm remains

Lawyers for Union Carbide Corp. and the government of India Friday told an Indian judge they failed

Predictable opposition surfaced from user groups and anti-noise activists to changes planned by the

U.S. importers are cutting a path to factory doors in China to beat the high value of the Japanese y

Production of cocoa in the current 1987-88 season could outstrip consumption by 77,000 metric tons,

Operators of shipping lines running from Asia to the United States don't expect the recent downturn

Dresser Industries Inc., Dallas, said Friday it signed a letter of intent to acquire the M.W. Kellog

Deliveries of Algerian liquefied natural gas to New England may resume soon, and this could be real

For the week ended Nov. 14 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 10

The waves of immigrants that have poured into the San Francisco Bay area since the Gold Rush have br

The port of Iberia, which sprouted in a sugar cane field, is hoping molasses will be a sweet new att

A year ago, two Maryland teen-agers died when a dump truck rolled backward into their car at an inte

Raymond Veilleux is sick and tired of cleaning up after heavy truck builders. Mr. Veilleux,

WORLD BANK BRAZIL - $132 million for resettling families affected by the flooding of the Ita

A controversial proposal to tax vegetable oils and fats, which is opposed by Europe's trading partne

A British company has produced a power-driven golf cart that is expected to be ready for the U.S. ma

The charmed life of Europe's steel makers is about to end. After seven years in a protective cocoon

Canada's largest airline shut down operations Friday, severely disrupting Canadian air traffic, in t

Spain OKs Ribavirin To Treat InfectionsCOSTA MESA, Calif. - Viratek Inc. announced that it w

The new stevedore at the port of Chicago expects to bring between 200,000 and 250,000 tons of cargo

Right-O-Way Moves To New TerminalRight-O-Way has nearly doubled its facility here by moving

AVIATION Canada's largest airline shut down operations Friday, severely disrupting Canadian

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

For hundreds of years, the greatest figures in the maritime industry each year strode across the san