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"Australia is in the position of being in a David and Goliath fight against one of the world's large

Escanaba & Northern To Buy C&NW TrackCHICAGO - Chicago and North Western Transportation Co.

An investor group led by Coniston Partners said it had acquired a 13 percent stake in Allegis Corp.,

Dole Warns '88 Budget Would Hurt Air ServiceTransportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole is warni

The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to review a lower court ruling that bars Milwaukee Road shareholde

A Canadian merchant bank has come to the aid of cash-strapped Versatile Corp. of Vancouver, which is

Strength in grain and chemical loadings in the first quarter of this year led rail traffic through t

Waterman Steamship Corp. objected to a proposed doubling of service by Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. bet

The Supreme Court ruled that federal labor law, not state tort law, controls suits by workers agains

Sales of existing homes edged down 1.4 percent in April, a private real estate group said. T

Japan's net foreign assets skyrocketed to an unprecedented high of $180.4 billion last year, officia

An explosive device that crippled a Soviet oil tanker in the Persian Gulf on May 17 may have been de

Federal inspectors generally are doing a good job protecting the nation's meat and poultry supplies,

The threat of another trade war between Europe and the United States was lifted, at least temporaril

Mexican finance officials said they are designing mechanisms to allow Mexican nationals to participa

Congress clearly hasn't lost interest in the increasingly touchy proposal for the U.S. Navy possibly

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, one of Japan's biggest shipping lines, launched an emergency rationalization

South Korean Cabinet Loses Eight MembersSEOUL, South Korea - President Chun Doo Hwan dismiss

One of two major projects to expand Hong Kong's containerport is running ahead of schedule, thanks t

California employers are opposing a new request for a 12.2 percent rate increase for state workers c

Mankind's latest telecommunications technology is falling victim to one of the oldest creatures on e

The auctioneer's hammer is falling on debt-ridden companies in Liaoning as the Chinese experiment wi

Charles Skibo, the president of US Sprint Communications Co., is riding on a lightwave of optimism t

Although optimistic about the domestic reinsurance industry's first-quarterfinancial results

British Firm Develops Motor-Testing DeviceMotech, a bench-top instrument used for laboratory

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

A government-backed body is working out a three-year plan to boost exports of light-engineering prod

Franchise Expositions Set for Eight US CitiesThe International Franchise Association will ho

Australian cattle producers have called for a ban on DDT insecticide after reports that traces of th

Indian Bargemen Slow Jute Product ExportsNEW DELHI, India - Deliberate slow working by some

The Port of London Authority, which operates Britain's largest general cargo port, reported slightly

Japan Line, one of the world's leading tanker operators, reported that its unconsolidated pretax los

A TORRENT OF PAPER crosses the journalist's desk each day from companies, associations and governmen

Quebec Foreign Trade Minister Pierre MacDonald struck out against the Jones Act, which limits U.S. d

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

The amount of gold mined in Indonesia in the first four months of the year exceeded that for all of

The U.S. dollar surged upward against most major foreign currencies Tuesday on what analysts describ

Platinum prices should top $700 an ounce by July, according to James U. Blanchard, chairman of Blanc

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

BankAmerica Corp. Chairman A.W. Clausen will seek Japanese financial assistance next week for fundin