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FMC CORP. (Chicago) - Jeffrey Butryn was named marketing manager, hydrogen peroxide, in the company'

SOVIETS ASK JAPANESE FOR PAYMENTS DELAYThe Soviet Union asked Japanese trading houses for a

May 14, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Discussions are under way to divide Petroleos Mexicanos into five separate companies, operating unde

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JAPANESE GROUP BUYS STAKE IN VOYAGER TRAVELJapanese retailer and hotel group Seibu Saison sa

Sen. Jesse Helms said he'll see to it that Congress rejects any worldwide agreement to cut world tra

A new Bush administration position on tanker hull requirements recommends the phase-out of single-sk

Consumers will pay about 6.3 cents more for a gallon of gasoline if budget negotiations now going on

The Supreme Court refused to abolish docking fees charged by Plaquemines Parish, La., to maintain it

Barge traffic is still rolling on the Missouri River, at least until Wednesday, and the industry now

U.S. meat exports in 1990 will continue at a strong pace, eclipsing last year's level by 15 percent,

Last year's alar pesticide scare brought the issue of food safety to the attention of consumers nati

INVENTION STACKS BAGS, BOXES FOR SHIPPINGTwo Canadian inventors claim to have developed a sy

LEBOWA PLATINUM FIRES 1,500 STRIKING WORKERSJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Lebowa Platium Mine

A Japanese Foreign Ministry official said Monday the government would allow the Goddess of Democracy

CP RAIL REPORTEDLY WINS BID TO BUY D&HThe CP Rail unit of Canadian Pacific Ltd. has been sel

The average annual total cash compensation for top risk managers is $73,153, according to a new surv

WHILE THE U.S. ECONOMY grew at a 2.1 percent annual rate during the first quarter, corporate earning

The credibility of railroad communications came under scrutiny at the opening session of the 38th an

Although she has been the target of repeated coup attempts, Philippine President Corazon Aquino is m

SAUDIS HOPE TO FORM MORE JOINT VENTURESNICOSIA, Cyprus - Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest o

A dramatic slowdown in the Brazilian economy forced Emery Worldwide Airlines to temporarily suspend

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1305 (May 14, 1990) Previous day - 1313 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Freight shippers attacked a trucking industry plan to set minimum transportation rates for moving go

Dissidents in the largest seafaring labor organization in the country suffered a reverse late last w

Fleet Lines, an ocean freight consolidator, said it started a direct, all- water service to Istanbul

Soviet participation in a four-nation venture to develop oil production on the North Yemen-South Yem

U.S. high-tech industries are growing anxious over European Community policies affecting U.S. export

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Many parts of Texas' new workers compensation insurance law have been targeted for legal attack by o

Strong textile and metal prices lifted The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index last week.

The strong performance of its lightering and offshore supply boat affiliate helped OMI Corp. record

Some top Quebec business leaders are sounding an alarm that a divorce from English Canada would be c

Report Predicts Drop In Domestic Oil OutputThe U.S. Department of Energy said last week it e

US REDUCES DUTIES ON COLOMBIAN FLOWERSColombian flower growers welcomed as "an important vic

AFRICA A VICTIM OF PERESTROIKA? Africa may lose from the gains of Eastern Europe, said James O.C. Jo

REGIONAL BLOCS Demystifying Europe 1992: What It Is, What It Is Not, and How Your Company Ca

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