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An offer of a $50,000 bonus has induced 182 veteran longshoremen in Baltimore to retire and remove t

The Maritime Association of the Port of New York/New Jersey. Open house. April 8 at the Shanghai Red

San Francisco Council Sanctions Yard StrikeThe San Francisco Central Labor Council granted s

The U.S. Atlantic-North Europe Conference plans a general rate increase, effective May 15. T

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

North East Again Defends SolvencyPORTLAND, Maine - North East Insurance Co. is back defendin

India is turning up the heat on Washington in its attempt to buy a supercomputer. The U.S. C

Construction is scheduled to start next July on a C$100-million (about $77 million) fuel-grade ethan

Eli Lilly and Co. is looking for a buyer for its Elizabeth Arden Inc. cosmetics subsidiary, the phar

South Korea has decided to turn 31 banks and business corporations under its control into private co

Toshiba Corp., a major Japanese electronics firm, said Thursday it has developed the world's first w

For the week ended March 21, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled

An Amtrak official said he was wrong in not requiring drug tests on the Amtrak crewmembers who survi

Japanese Company Denies Dumping ClaimPatrick Omara, a trade lawyer for the Japanese company

Mazda's plans for several new cars in the 1988 model year include its first convertible and other mo

The House Merchant Marine & Fisheries Committee voted to temporarily exclude offshore oil drilling r

Built in just 41 days during 1942, the John W. Brown is one of two surviving Liberty ships from the

A majority of corporations will continue to rely on outside legal firms to handle their litigation w

Chancellor Helmut Kohl, ending talks with European Community Commissioners, said Thursday that the E

GENERAL NEWS Richard G. Darman, top aide to Treasury Secretary James Baker, resigned to take

A semiconductor company executive said the industry probably won't recommend which Japanese semicond

Shell Canada Ltd. plans a capital and exploration budget of $420 million for 1987, down $160 million

So low is the estate of nuclear power in the land that it has come to this: A legislative he

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. has signed a joint venture agreement with Ultrasystems Inc. to become

Arco Chemical Co. announced it has obtained a licence to use proprietary technology from Japan's Kur

Cetus Corp. announced that two of its most fundamental patent applications covering gene amplificati

GENERAL NEWS Richard G. Darman, top aide to Treasury Secretary James Baker, resigned to take

New flight restrictions at Oakland International Airport should reduce the likelihood of a repeat of

British communications giant Cable and Wireless and Pacific Telesis International of the United Stat

Scotland's centuries-old liner shipping links with the United States will be severed in June when th

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

A Liberty ship that dodged torpedoes and eluded bombs during World War II has escaped the most dread

CFTC to Consider Evening TradingThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission will consider this

A London reinsurer didn't seem to buy the Delaware insurance commissioner's unsolicited pitch for bu

At a time when Taiwan is under intense pressure to import more from the United States, it has had to

The Chicago Board of Trade has been pitching proposals for a multimillion- dolla r trading floor ren

April 2, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Conn. Gas Company In Energy VentureBRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Southern Connecticut Gas Co. signed a

Help-wanted advertising rose six points in February, continuing the seesaw pattern of the index for

A.T. Massey Coal Co., the nation's ninth largest coal producer, is about to be split in half by its