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The U.S. Department of Agriculture still expects the Soviet Union to purchase U.S. wheat flour on a

SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE (New York) - Douglas B. Stevenson was named director of the Center for Sea

DATE OF AWARD: "E" Award in May 1990.WHY THE AWARD WAS GIVEN:Igloo Products Corp.'s

Soaring fuel prices, the recession and the cost of laying off nearly 3,000 employees drove down Air

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New York Mercantile Exchange Nov. 7, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has persuaded Detlev Rohwedder, industrialist, to stay in the country'

The U.S. dollar turned higher Thursday afternoon in nervous trading reflecting concern about the Per

The challenges of insuring an older home were addressed recently by John DeNegre of Chubb Group of I

The local export insurance agency is issuing new warnings to check on the quality of buyers, especia

Citing slack economic activity, Bethlehem Steel Corp., the nation's second- largest steelmaker, said

Chile's newly privatized power company, Chilgener, is scouting the international marketfor about 980

Less than 40 days into the current fiscal year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture already has spent

A fragile coalition of U.S. shipowners seeking more government subsidies is in danger of collapse fo

The international business community fears a proposed European Community directive on data and priva

Amerijet International Airlines is establishing a New York beachhead. The all-cargo airline

Demand for steel in Indonesia will more than double over the next three years to 6 million metric to

Nov. 8, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Massachusetts Port Authority officials breathed a collective sigh of relief as a tax-cutting ballot

John Garamendi, California's insurance commissioner-elect, declared war on the insurance industry We

U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE (Washington) - U.S. Commissioner of Customs Carol Boyd Hallett announced that s

AAA Cooper Transportation Co., Dothan, Ala., is an independent company. The story "TNT Group Continu

Four barge operators recently submitted bids to provide barge service to ferry cargo between port te

SLIGHT INCREASE SEEN IN US PRICE INDEXWASHINGTON - Moderating energy price increases and a s

For an exporter, building an overseas distribution network is a long, enduring process of trial and

Japan Thursday said it was dissatisfied with the Soviet response to its demand for repayment of $470

G-7 ASKED TO ADDRESS US DOLLAR WEAKNESSFrench Finance Minister Pierre Beregovoy Thursday exp

The Port of Singapore Authority awarded a S$95 million (US$47 million) contract to C. Itoh & Co. of

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

Japan will continue as the No. 1 customer of American farmers at least through the turn of the centu

MCDONNELL DOUGLAS CORP. (New York) - William S. Ross, president of McDonnell Aircraft Co.,is retirin

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The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 230.37 up 1.57 which compares

COLUMBIA MUST PAY CLAIMS IN HYATT CASEChicago-based Columbia Casualty Co. is responsible for

With the Liberian civil war having turned off the spigot on the world's single-largest source of nat

Chicago and North Western Transportation Co. opened a second double-stack container facility in Chic

The crackdown by Congress on acid rain in the Clean Air Act is intended to cut in half nationwide su

Subsidy programs aimed at making the U.S. merchant fleet competitive on the world market are actuall

Five leading European shipbuilders are to work together on the design of a new supertanker.

The Sugar Management Committee of the London Futures and Options Exchange has deferred a decision on