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Sea-Land Service Inc. made its first formal move to enter the Hawaii/Guam- mainl and trade as a succ

When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare program into law in 1965, it was hailed as the mos

Several major Chinese industries have fallen more than a decade behind their foreign competitors in

In the fighter plane of the future, the pilot appears to touch a point in empty space as he selects

As the debate over airline safety rages in Congress and elsewhere, almost half of Americans think fl

Chinese Oil Exports Down in First HalfChina exported 12.8 million metric tons of crude oil i

Despite concentrated attacks in the Persian Gulf against tankers by Iraq and Iran, oil exports are

An oil field with reserves of 819 million barrels of light crude was found by Petroleos de Venezuela

Hyundai Construction and Engineering Co. said Monday it will not accept the government's decision to

A New Jersey lawmaker is trying to rally colleagues in opposition to what he says is a very bad ide

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A mediator will now have to try and get the United Transportation Union and the Chicago & Northweste

Iraq plans to curtail sharply its military operations in the gulf in response to an expected U.N. Se

The Reagan administration's foreign aid initiatives, despite continuing world debt problems, are mak

XTRA Increases Size Of Public Stock OfferBOSTON - XTRA Corp. has raised the size of a planne

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Non-subsidized domestic tanker interests insist Congress barred three tankersfrom repaying t

Crane operators striking in a dispute between two unions shut down loading operations in the country

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission soon will release proposed regulations governing the use of

A labor commissioner who has urged the Canadian government to scrap a containerization work rule say

The Manville Corp. may be able to emerge from bankruptcy as early as June 1988 if the appeals proces

Consumers Power To Cut Work ForceJACKSON, Mich. - Consumers Power Co. announced Monday that

St. Lucia Contracts For GTE Earth StationCASTRIES, St. Lucia - GTE Corp. of Stamford, Conn.,

RPC Energy Services Inc. announced a net loss for the for the fiscal year ended June 30. For

Side by side in their plastic pots, Ronald Meeusen's two tobacco plants present a striking contrast.

Consolidated Freightways Inc. reported second quarter net income fell 24.2 percent to $20 million, o

A July 6 item in this column incorrectly reported certain figures related to industrial phosphoric a

Taiwan Pipe Exports Cleared From DutiesThe International Trade Commission cleared Taiwan exp

AIR CARGO Cylix Communications to manage Purolator Courier's entire domestic network. 5BAVI

Stuck Tow Hampers Traffic on MississippiKANSAS CITY, Mo. - Towboats on the upper Mississippi

CSX Corp. moved to integrate its railroad, trucking and steamship operations by forming an integrate

Fanfare and speeches marked the opening day of the International Longshoremen's Association 47th qu

Government Suspends Treasury Bill AuctionWASHINGTON - The government suspended Monday's week

The final report on the development and testing of an automatic marine telephone system for the inla

Polaroid Corp. said it earned $27.3 million in the second quarter, a 13 percent jump from the same p

The Virginia-based developer of a proposed 180-megawatt coal-fired cogeneration plant will decide la

What's billed as the most significant legal exchange ever between the United States and China takes

DOT Opens Hearings On USAir, PiedmontThe Transportation Department's oral hearing on the USA

The United States' policy of economic sanctions against South Africa attracted both praise and conde