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Getty Petroleum Corp., Plainview, N.Y., was awarded just over $2 million in punitive and compensator

The Columbia Gas System said that on Oct. 1 it will redeem $6,250,000 of its 11.75 percent debenture

Atlanta Gas Light Proposes RefundAtlanta Gas Light Co. has filed a proposal with the Public

The West German Bundesbank celebrates its 30th anniversary this week, amid birthday acknowledgements

The United States has fallen behind many of its allies in developing and building sophisticated mine

Recently revived Orient Overseas Container Line is considering a substantial shipbuilding program, w

Trucking Price Bureaus Map More Rate HikesTwo trucking industry pricing bureaus are consider

A power company has been slapped with a $75,000 penalty for its failure to adequately guard an open

An export development program initiated by New York City in April 1986 has produced over $1.7 millio

Sweden is investigating whether cabin cruisers sold to Iran four years ago were built to carry weapo

US Leasing Expanding Its Fleet of RailcarsUnited States Leasing International Inc. said that

Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kansas, said Thursday he believes a House- Senate conference will

Brazil, the leading Third World debtor, may be the last to determine just how - or even if - it will

American Group Forms Health Care UnitAmerican International Group Inc. said it formed Americ

Two Exchanges Study Merger PossibilitiesThe Nymex and Comex have jointly retained the manage

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

Thu., July 30, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Overseas earnings of Britain's financial services industry increased by more than 40 percent last ye

Freightliner Corp. will raise its production level for at least the second time in the past year fol

Ocean Transport & Trading PLC, the British shipping and transportation group, reported an increase i

If the same rules that determine success for business can apply to election campaigns, location may

General Public Utilities Corp. reported second quarter earnings of $51.2 million or 82 cents a share

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. has sold 500,000 shares of 6.95 percent cumulative preference stock t

The Pentagon will increase minesweeping operations in the Persian Gulf next month, but in the meanti

MTL Reported Loss Of $526,000 for PeriodSEACUCUS, N.J. - Marine Transport Lines, which opera

A motorist police said squirted a water pistol at another driver's car during an argument at a traff

Some state lawmakers do support state insurance regulation afterall. The National Conference

The House voted 396-17 to extend the life of the Price-Anderson Act and increase its liability limit

Some time ago, a reader wrote stating that she had flown from London to Paris to meet a friend for a

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New Soviet Helicopter Hauls Up to 80 TonsThe Soviet Union has developed a new helicopter tha

Beacon Oil Co. has sent layoff notices to 71 workers and announced it may close its refinery here in

Truckers hauling extremely dangerous loads would be forced to obtain a safety-based federal operatin

Two major Gulf Coast stevedoring firms, in an effort to cut overhead costs and maintain a competitiv

A New Mexico concern half-owned by former Atlantic Richfield Co. Chairman Robert O. Anderson, has ag

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

Profit Jumps At St. Paul Cos.ST. PAUL, Minn. - St. Paul Cos. reported second quarter operati

China's trains have carried at least 3.5 million passengers more than usual in July, and officials h

For the week ended July 18 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 99

The Australian Railway Industry Committee is helping to boost exports of Australian railroad product