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The Greater Baton Rouge Port Commission has dropped an effort to sidestep normal procedure and name

The Soviet Union has not changed the goals of its nuclear power program following the Chernobyl acci

W.R. Grace & Co. will boost its 1987 research and development budget 12 percent to $106 million for

A chemical spill involving the toxic solvent trichloroethylene in North Salt Lake, Utah, resulted i

Bechtel Signs Contract For Hydroelectric UnitBechtel signed a contract with the Lewis County

Names on the covers of the corporate brochure tell the story, starting with ''D.W. Aaron" and ending

ICC Draws New Rules For C.O.D. ShipmentsNew rules allowing trucking companies to publish tar

Betz Laboratories Inc. announced the acquisition of the metal coil coating business of Amchem Produc

While several U.S. companies hammer out annual coking coal contract terms with Siderbras, Jim Walter

Kenworth Truck Co. has introduced an electronic road speed control system for highway trucks that i

Nolte Freightlines was on the ropes, although the four owners of the family enterprise may not have

Humorist Will Rogers observed during the Depression that Americans might be the first nation in hist

Three British airlines that began trading as holiday passenger charter carriers have started looking

Iberia, Spain's state-controlled airline, will announce an ambitious $5-$6 billion fleet modernizati

Purolator Courier Corp. said its board of directors recommended that shareholders accept the $40 a s

International air express carriers are vying for a bigger piece of the shipper pie as they continue

At a time when commercial air freight, as a structured industry, has moved into its fifth decade, th

Cathay Pacific Plans To Upgrade ServiceCathay Pacific Airways, which began five-times-a-week

Swedish Firm Develops Protective Face MasksA Swedish company has developed a series of prote

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

Turkey Dumping Aspirin in US MarketAspirin imports from Turkey are being dumped in the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Commerce is trying to soften what overseas textile suppliers predict will be

Prime Computer Inc. Tuesday introduced what it said is the industry's highest performance superminic

Merged Ornamented/Non-Ornamented Classification The use of arithmetic averaging to establish

FINANCIAL Central bank intervention braked the dollar's slide Tuesday, but traders remained

FINANCIAL Central bank intervention braked the dollar's slide Tuesday, but traders remained

Top Stories The Chinese Export Commodities Fair, which has chalked up 30 years of operation,

Ashton-Tate Corp. Tuesday introduced its new flagship word-processing product, MultiMate Advantage I

Rapid growth in South Korea's toy industry is creating shortages of vital compo nents, increasing th

A front page story about Itel Container Corp. in Monday's Journal of Commerce mentioned three firms

The European Commission unveiled its first plan aimed at softening the impact of the common agricul

A Swiss business executive charged that U.S. companies could be aiding the illegal flow of capital f

Secretary of State George P. Shultz discussed economic and military security issues with Soviet lead

Brazilian trade authorities have freed import licenses for newsprint and magazine paper shipments, s

U.S. credit card giant MasterCard has elbowed aside U.S. rival Visa by linking up with Visa's former

Japanese Officials Pressing Reagan BondsTOKYO - Japanese government finance and monetary off

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

Tue., April 14,1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Texaco Inc. has hired a high-powered lobbying team to convince state lawmakers to cut the size of th

Gold, an old saying goes, is where you find it. A lot of prospectors have found it on Wall S