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Truck tonnage totals in last week's table for the Southern and Western regions and for All Areas wer

Grenada, the world's second-largest producer of nutmegs, recorded a 13.5 percent increase in exports

Witco Corp. is planning a $2.6 million modernization project for its Concarb division carbon black p

Chinese Cotton Growers Receive IncentivesCotton growers in China's coastal Jiangsu province

IDB ECUADOR - $57.2 million from the Inter-American Development Bank for low- income housing

Czech Dissident VIENNA, Austria - A U.S. congressional delegation in Czechoslovakia on a hum

INSURANCE ContinentalNames BondHead of UnitNEW YORK - Continental Corp. name

Obstacles To BusinessGrowth CitedConsumers' heavy spending at the expense of savings

By a one-vote margin, the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association voted to go ahead with

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

Preston Corp. reported a fourth quarter profit of $604,000, or 10 cents a share, compared with a yea

Fried Chicken Firm Leaving South AfricaLOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp. plans

Burma's quarter-century of isolation and one-man rule have shattered the economy of a bountiful land

William McGeoch & Co. of Britain has developed an instrument that displays the position of mobile eq

Major shipping lines are diverting vessels from Rotterdam to avoid being strikebound at Europe Conta

West Germany's shipowners, as generally expected, promptly farmed out their vessels under cost-savin

Limited sorghum supplies for this year and soaring prices have left Japanese import ers in need of a

Malaysian rubber output totaled 1.54 million metric tons in 1986, up 4.7 percent from the previous y

A follow-up examination of a Danish report by the Norwegian classification society Det norske Verita

Oakland International Airport has won its first international customer since it was forced to stop s

Financial authorities of the five major industrial democracies are still trying to arrange another

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

A Blue Shield of California pilot project that takes a flexible approach to outpatient care is provi

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Brazil will demand an increase in International Cocoa Organization's buffer stock to 250,000 metric

Profit margins rose for nearly 70 percent of the nation's larger trucking companies in a year-to-yea

The initial public offering price for Conrail stock is expected to be between $22 and $26 a share, a

The Senate Commerce Committee may attempt to expand legislation permitting random testing of railroa

GENERAL NEWS Ford Motor Co. earned $3.3 billion in 1986, a 31 percent improvement over the p

Two U.S. computer companies have expanded production facilities in Ireland, while a third U.S. compa

The year 1986 will stand as a turning point for the port of Oslo, which registered a record 5.7 mill

The odor of diesel oil, the piles of fishing nets and crab pots still dominate the docks at the old

From dockside intermodal facilities to special roadways for hauling overweight containers, Californi

Joe Cleary did what ordinary mortals merely dream of. When his electric bill got too high, he called

One of the things to emerge from the air transport industry's long shakeout is a boiled-down group o

Scientists' ability to manipulate the genes of plants and animals is creating a new frontier for foo

Resin Output Rose 8.9 percentIn NovemberProduction of plastics resins totaled 3.683

Machinists union workers took an unscheduled holiday Monday at three McDonnell Douglas Corp. plants

Chinese Officials Order Tighter Price ControlsAuthorities have ordered tighter price control

The European Community has decided to request a disputes panel to rule whether Japan is violating th