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Commercial airline pilots often fight intense drowsiness and sometimes even fall asleep while flying

When a helicopter ambulance plowed into an Oregon wheat field the same day one crashed in Tennessee,

Negotiations between Long Island Lighting Co. and New York state officials are continuing as the Jan

The weekly general freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent

The Emergency Planning and Community-Right-to-Know Act of 1986 is a separate act that became law whe

Hurt by declining productivity, a worsening labor shortage and rising production costs, the Hungaria

The U.S. dollar continued its week-long decline against major foreign currencies Wednesday in tradin

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

Jack Block, whose chubby face won him the title of Carnation Milk's Baby of the Week during the Depr

Taiwan has about 40,000 trading companies, but the government's efforts to foster large trading hous

The Wayne Newton libel case is causing concern in the news media, stirring fears that a record $19.3

Inventories of key petroleum products held by refiners, importers and at pipeline terminals declined

Wednesday, Dec. 24, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

A maritime union that was formed last year to organize deck officers now represents over 400 workers

Ellerman Begins Service To the MediterraneanMOBILE, Ala. - British-based Ellerman Line began

A number of maritime unions appear to be elbowing for position to crew a group of U.S. Navy ships be

After hours trading occurs regularly in Chicago Mercantile Exchange Futures pits, and is generally o

COORDINATION NEEDED. Burt Rutan, designer of the remarkable Voyager aircraft, and president

Medicare Abandons Payment Delay PlanUnder mounting pressure from Congress, federal Medicare

JANUARY 6-7 - Insurance Crisis Conference - San Francisco - Laventhol & Horwath certified pu

IDB HONDURAS - $12.4 million to help finance a rural development program benefiting 4,300 lo

ICC Adopts Final Rules On Lease ExemptionsThe Interstate Commerce Commission adopted final r

The Massachusetts Port Authority continues to land-bank waterfront property with deepwater berths fo

Flota Mercante Grancolombiana SA wants the Federal Maritime Commission to reject complaints from O.

The Maritime Administrative Bar Association joined carrier interests to oppose intervention by the s

California truckers will have until March 1 to prepare for new state trucking regulations, the state

The Japanese Tariff Council recommended adoption of a plan to expand preferential tariffs and erase

Looking back at 1986, Eastman Kodak Co. Chairman Colby Chandler told employees that he believes the

Commodity Exchange Inc. announced it had on line a new computer system that streamlines data flow an

Domestic exports last month were up 30 percent on a year earlier to HK$14.8 billion (US$1.9 billion)

Crompton & Knowles Corp., a producer and marketer of specialty chemicals and equipment, announced it

Numac Oil & Gas Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, made a light-gravity oil discovery at Tangent in northern A

Far Eastern press reports indicate that Toyo Menka Kaisha Ltd. has withdrawn its lawsuit against the

The decision of Donald Mazankowski, deputy prime minister of Canada, to name a small icebreaker, to

Truckers bound for Boston are running into stiff fines as a result of a conflict between state and f

Saudi Arabia and Nigeria told customers that all oil will be sold on a fixed price basis as of Feb.

December 24, 1986 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gall

At a congressional hearing held in northern New Jersey two years ago, a local woman told of her fear

In about two years, the $1 billion cleanup of the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident is due

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