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Thousands of Kentucky coal miners and families of deceased miners would be eligible for black lung b

The European Commission signed an agreement with Sweden and Norway that will extend EC air transport

NEW HONDA ENGINE BOOSTS FUEL ECONOMYHonda Motor Co. said Tuesday it has developed an engine

BIOSYS (Palo Alto, Calif.) - Thomas W. Parton, who recently retired as the head of the agricultural

Malaysia, the world's fourth-largest cocoa producer, has set aside US$431,650 (12 million ringgit) t

India is short of about 600,000 metric tons of edible oils, but a lack of foreign exchange and a des

Fixing the U.S. economy could be a fairly simple matter: Just eliminate the tax on long-term

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 213.68 up 1.89 which compares wi

Teamster negotiators were set to begin the second round of talks Tuesday night with United Parcel Se

The Soviet Union intends to expand the operations of an Asian stock exchange with the expected openi

Lufthansa German Airlines will continue flying from Charlotte to Frankfurt, although it got only hal

GERMAN MANUFACTURERS SEE 6 PERCENT DROP IN ORDERSFRANKFURT, Germany - Orders for German plan

The U.S. dollar held its gains after rebounding Tuesday morning on short- covering tied to better-th

When Judy Dlugacz arranges cruises for lesbians, Key West is a favorite stop. "It's a very g

Liquor wholesalers welcomed President Bush's proposal of bestowing most- favored-nation trade status

San Francisco International Airport is proposing a plan for $1.7 billion worth of new construction a

World cocoa surpluses for the 1990-91 crop year (October-September) grew by about 20 percent from a

Empremar Line has severed its vessel-sharing agreement with Empresa Naviera Santa but plans to enter

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

The Philippine government's agreement to assume the debt load of state-run Philippine Air Lines has

UPS BREAKS GROUND FOR $150 MILLION HUBHODGKINS, Ill. - United Parcel Service has begun const

Hefty payouts from eight storms that pounded Europe last year pushed 1990 pre-tax profits of the Ger

A class action suit has been filed in Florida against Pfizer Inc., of New York, and two subsidiaries

A drive to enrich this country's animal breeding stock, particularly cattle and pigs, is proving a b

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago7/30 7/29 Change % Change:

Aluminum ingots- $1,200-$1,300 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

As of July 30, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

New York Mercantile Exchange July 30, 1991Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High

1474 (July 30, 1991) Previous day - 1485 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Thirteen major shipping lines on the Pacific, encouraged by a summer surge in imports to the United

The captain of an Irish Republican Army gun-running ship was given an eight- year jail sentence Mond

REFORMS LIKELY TO HURT INDIA'S TRADE AGENCIESIndia's State Trading Corp. and other official

Two leading legislators Tuesday asked the Bush administration to adopt a controversial study of safe

The Federal Maritime Commission may have come up with some workable compromises in its latest report

The European Community and the United States Tuesday hinted they are finally ready to make the compr

A Senate panel took the easy way out by voting to repeal an unpopular Coast Guard decal fee on recre

RF&P Corp., parent of Richmond, Fredericksburg & Poto- mac Railroad, reported second-quarter earning

US OFFICIAL SEES HOPE ON MFN FOR ROMANIABUCHAREST, Romania - U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary

A bit of the sea-going romance may be lost, but Boston harbor pilots may be more comfortable in wint

President Enterprises, Taiwan's largest manufacturer of processed food, is to build a tomato paste p