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FLA. FARMERS APPLYING FOR EMERGENCY LOANSORLANDO, Fla. - Applications for emergency loans ar

The property/casualty insurance industry was hit with $3 billion in catastrophe losses in the second

RELIANCE INSURANCE GROUP (Philadelphia) - Lee Routledge, general counsel and secretary, was promoted

Random ship inspections by the world's largest marine liability insurer show that the overwhelming m

Inflation in Greece stood at 8.7 percent on an annual basis in August, against 9.2 percent in July,

To hear Brad Mulholland tell it, Matson Navigation Co. is just a small enterprise with 643 employees

EXACTLY WHERE THEY STAND Last week in this space ("Straight Talk," by Ira Rosenfeld) I wrote

"K" LINE AMERICA INC. (Murray Hill, N.J.) - Maria Catsadimas was named account executive. Pr

Illinois River lock repairs are behind schedule, delaying resumption of barging between Chicago and

Aiming to be out in front before the they have to switch to the metric system, Alabama's Department

The common wisdom of deregulation is that rates go down, and revenue with them. It happened in the t

Union employees are being offered a slice of the corporate pie at three transportation companies wit

Seizing on much-publicized images of sweat shops and brazen exploitation, U.S. labor unions are usin

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Ocean carriers that collectively set rates on most traffic from Asia are expanding the discounts on

Continental Airlines' pilots have overwhelmingly approved a two-year contract - their first labor pa

The executive director of the Montana Farmers Union says Burlington Northern Railroad's latest incre

The National Industrial Transportation League and three key trucking groups have jointly proposed ch

U.S. Treasury officials are hopeful that a half-dozen new income tax treaties and protocols will tak

LUFTHANSA CHIEF: AIRLINE 'NOT OUT OF THE WOODS'Lufthansa German Airlines "is not yet out of

The city of Tacoma has signed a $3.1 million deal to buy a 74-mile rail line needed in the city's pl

The Interstate Commerce Commission has tentatively set a 195-day schedule for consideration of the p

Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Lines will retain 98 percent of their current combined 3

The international business community is urging Congress to ratify as quickly as possible a 20-year-o

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Sept. 8, '94 - Sept. 1, '95 (a graph) (2

Cummins Engine Co. is making a bigger push into the off-highway engine market, trying to use technol

The Export-Import Bank of Japan announced Friday that it will lend 5.523 billion yen ($56.56 million

Friday, Sept. 1, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The Bank of Japan has extended 500 billion yen ($500 million) in emergency loans to bankrupt Hyogo B

Three tasks many in the transportation business dread: setting up businessplans, reviewing e

The Russian government decided to begin a program of turning Russia's 750 non-licensed investment co

Airborne Express, the nation's third-largest express mail company, will inaugurate a second runway a

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

The action will pick up in the foreign exchange market this week, ending the summer doldrums, and th

MAUI UTILITY BUYS TWO ELECTRIC CARSWAILUKU - Electric cars soon will move beyond Mau

The National Federation of Credit Cooperatives will donate about 50 billion yen ($511.8 million) to

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Tax reform and infrastructure spending will be at the top of Mexico's list of priorities for the nex

It's not just apples that Washington state is growing. The Northwestern state is producing a

Washington trade and farm officials want the state to be included on the list of states that the Dep