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Several major ship lines and some fruit and car importers are discussing using the vacant Howland Ho

Italy has no immediate plans to send minesweepers to the gulf and still believes the United Nations

California housing production rebounded in June, due largely to a surprising spurt" in multi-family

World sugar imports in 1987 are expected to decline further by some 5 percent to 24.8 million tons,

Here is an idealized timetable for the discovery and commercial production of oil from the Arctic Na

Weak monsoon rains in Asia and plagues of grasshoppers and locusts in Africa were reported to be thr

The West Coast shipping industry Wednesday was still waiting to hear the results of a close longshor

The mysterious appearance of mines in waters outside the Persian Gulf has dramatically raised the st

Many of the 210 residents of this Eskimo village hugging the northern coast of Alaska see developmen

The chances of finding oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Alaska's northeastern coast are

The U.S. Navy is sending an unspecified number of small patrol boats to bolster its escort of Kuwait

Bonn Swaps 3 Agents From E. Bloc for TwoBONN, West Germany - West Germany on Wednesday swapp

Maersk Line has signed a major contract to use Transax/RATES' Shiprate service to automate its tarif

Ford Motor Co. will make TRW Inc. of Cleveland its main supplier of air bags and advanced seat belts

It is called the largest-ever U.S. work of jurisprudence, and the presiding judge says the multibill

Japan's business community will provide all-out support to the Nakasone administration's decision to

Mike Bradshaw, a geologist with Conoco Inc., digs out a handful of gray sandfrom a bluff ove

A Clemson, S.C., textile company, in search of workers, recently placed help- wanted ads in newspape

Decisions being made in transportation bankruptcy cases that call for payment of interest to unsecur

The Greeks, who have seen themselves grow steadily poorer for two years in a row, have received a wa

Tax reforms enacted by Mexico this year are already boosting revenue substantially, finance official

Reports that Japan's Toshiba Corp. has lost its bid to sell 90,000 lap-top computers to the U.S. Air

F.W. Woolworth Co. reported its second-quarter earnings rose 19 percent as they were helped in part

Swiss Transport and Energy Minister Leon Schlumpf, who strongly defended Swiss interests in road tra

Black Group to Buy South Africa Bus FirmJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - In one of the largest p

A team of U.S. traffic engineers will try to help China's largest city untangle its daily monster tr

Heavy-truck makers have an expensive habit they can't seem to break. Every time a big customer asks

Intercity revenue and ton-miles rose modestly for the trucking industry last year, outpacing lagging

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AVIATION The original partners in a new European computer reservation system announced a com

The nation's factories shipped $107.9 billion worth of electronic equipment, components and related

Bank of America is negotiating to sell its 38,000-customer Dutch Visa credit card operation to a lar

1118.5 (Aug. 12) Previous day - 1074.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

The number of farms in the United States dropped 2 percent last year, while the size of the average

Crouse-Hinds Names Tuck to New PostSYRACUSE, N.Y. - Crouse-Hinds Co., a Syracuse-based elect

U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III arrived Wednesday to help lead a conference in which 1,700 U.S

An exhibition with a difference is being planned for China late this year - showing off the worst ra

Colombian Firm Plans Polypropylene PlantDANBURY, Conn. - Petroquimica Colombiana announced p

The home handyman of the future might find a heat gun or ultrasonic welding device handier than a ha

The new administration governing the U.S. Virgin Islands has reorganized, cut its deficit and laid p