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Two pilots flying for Eastern Airlines stunned a Senate hearing Thursday with stories of management

The master list of goals for the Air Transport Association's contemplated public education campaign

The common fertilizer anhydrous ammonia could cause a "Bhopal event" in a certain kind of accident,

Net Income, Sales Increase at MerckRAHWAY, N. J. - Merck & Co.'s third-quarter net income cl

John A. Dyer, the Chattanooga, Tenn., native who has served as general manager of the Southern Calif

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U.S. automakers scheduled the assembly of 236,518 cars and trucks in domestic factories this week, t

An appeals court says bars that served a visibly intoxicated man cannot be held legally responsible

Imports into France continue to outstrip that country's exports, according to the latest trade figur

Siemens Gives Contract To Apollo ComputerCHELMSFORD, Mass. - Apollo Computer Inc., a major s

Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III attacked recent rises in domestic and foreign interest rates,

The Maritime Administration took another step toward opening to qualified foreign insurers the $4 bi

When Marcus S. Kostolich had his own bulk transport company, he feared having to compete against the

The son of the founder of the nationally known Lundberg Survey oil industry newsletter agreed to sto

Graca Maria Ramos couldn't believe it - lace made with plastic thread, feathers and metal. T

It's "close to impossible" to break into the Japanese market, the head of a U.S. company that's been

The Independent Insurance Agents of America are opposed to a recent federal report that criticizes s

Tampa Electric Co. will pay Pyramid Mining Inc. $49 million and sign a new short-term coal contract

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

West Germany is now the world's largest exporting nation; it also plays host to 60 percent of all th

Insurance Exchange Targets EfficiencyThe New York Insurance Exchange will be streamlining it

Top-level members of the Nakasone administration are scheduled to reach a long-expected official dec

There is a vigor and drive in the Finnish capital that may be greater than ever before. Fore

The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries warned Gulf Arab oil producers Wednesday that

The Insurance Information Institute says the Massachusetts attorney general's office took a quantum

Pa. Agency to Award Coal Research FundsHARRISBURG, Pa. - The Pennsylvania Energy Development

Many Japanese would welcome stern measures aimed at forcing their country to drop unfair trade pract

This is the hurricane season on the East Coast and Capt. Henry Engelbrecht is a little worried. He's

BN Workers Testify In Amtrak Crash ProbeOTTUMWA, Iowa - Three Burlington Northern Railroad w

For the week ended Oct. 3 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 110

There was a time when only tourists and Irish-Americans returning home came to Ireland. Toda

Patent Suit Buffets Wind Shear BusinessWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Stormy weather has come to the w

A fuel oil trade group says retail prices for No. 2 oil in Massachusetts may reach 95 cents a gallon

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

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An Iranian missile hit and set ablaze a supertanker moored off Kuwait's main oil terminal Thursday.

Strike at Crowley Ends After 9 MonthsSEATTLE - Crowley Maritime Corp. says the nine-month-lo

The president of Matson Navigation Co.'s parent firm told securities analysts that Matson does not v

Efforts to settle the dispute between Fireman's Fund Insurance Cos. and the Massachusetts insurance