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ST. PAUL COS. BOARD RAISES QUARTER DIVIDENDST. PAUL, Minn. - The St. Paul Cos. board

Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., plans to introduce a bill in Congress Thursday that would ease the ru

Lincoln National Corp. is preparing for a $32.8 million loss in its disability-income reinsurance bu

OPERATING, NET INCOME FALL AT HARTFORD STEAMHARTFORD, Conn. - Hartford Steam Boiler

Aetna Life & Casualty said it will limit how much it will spend toward the health insurance of retir

Robert V. Mendelsohn, former president and chief operating officer of W.R. Berkley Corp., was electe

A major business group urged the government Tuesday to go slow toward undertaking any major new inte

Jitters swept through Asian commodity markets last December when talk spread that China would unify

The Federal Reserve Board said Tuesday that Vice Chairman David Mullins was resigning, effective Feb

A top official from the International Maritime Organization will visit Panama this week to urge the

Shippers Stevedoring Co. said it concluded negotiations with Furness North America and purchased all

Panama's National Assembly is considering a constitutional amendment to establish an autonomous auth

Chicago & North Western Holdings Corp. earned $24.5 million, or 54 cents a share, in the fourth quar

British Airways has launched two new all-cargo services - one to Scandinavia and the other to Hong K

For the week ended Jan. 22, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

THRALL CAR MANUFACTURING CO. (Chicago Heights, Ill.) - Martin Graham was named to the newly created

Monthly increases in rail freight tariffs on Russia's state-owned railway system are pushing up pric

BA TAKES IT ON CHIN FROM VIRGIN AIR AGAINLONDON - British Airways took another defea

Shippers and cargo consolidators say the entry of Russia's Far East Shipping Co. (Fesco) into the U.

U.S. railroad executives are ready to bet that the nation's economy has grown strong enough to toler

U.S. Customs Monday made its long-expected move to cut its New Jersey marine inspection sites to fiv

Trucking industry officials' average paychecks are rising 3 percent to 4 percent a year, with manage

The Department of Transportation's four-year airport improvement package calls for an expansion of f

An intermodal train operated by Union Pacific Railroad derailed in Fremont, Calif., Sunday, sending

U.S. shipping companies are pushing their seagoing unions to accept permanent crews on some vessels

Thousands of containers bound for Canadian ports have been diverted here and to Tacoma, Wash., as a

An eagerly awaited report on the future of Europe's crisis-struck airline industry is expected to ca

The government's 40-year monopoly of domestic airlines is moving to a close with a presidential ordi

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SCHEDULED AIRLINES POST LOW ACCIDENT RATEWASHINGTON - The nation's scheduled airline

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach failed to make Monday's deadline to close on the purchase ag

The National Transportation Safety Board's final report on a July 1991 fatal accident involving Amtr

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The Interstate 5 detour near Los Angeles was opened Saturday morning, providing truckers with a dire

Monday, Jan. 31, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Yellow Corp. reported fourth-quarter earnings of $12 million, or 43 cents a share, an 80 percent inc

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

A strike by engineering workers Monday against management calls for a wage freeze and benefit cuts d

Some Los Angeles area oil refiners, dependent on pipeline supplies of California crudes, could be fo

U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and Bowman Cutter, deputy director of the White House Econom