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Norman Borlaug didn't rush out to hug a couple of trees on Earth Day. Not that he was unconcerned a

France and Britain, which built the supersonic Concorde airliner 20 years ago, will announce plans t

The U.S. dollar was broadly lower Monday, partly due to technical reaction to its recent narrow trad

Clint Graves never thought he'd be making semiconductors in a householdpressure cooker.<

The U.S. cargo plane that crashed in Guatemala Saturday, killing 23 people, carried fresh produce an

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UNREST, PRICES HURT INVESTMENT IN TAIWANTAIPEI, Taiwan - Political and social instability, a

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

Hong Kong's main financial institution said it has detected what is almost certainly a significant i

An Air India jumbo jet carrying 215 people from London to Bombay caught fire minutes before a schedu

Burlington Air Express' decision to tender traffic to DHL Worldwide Express on an underused Seattle-

State officials in New York and New Jersey have come to the aid of local small and medium-sized comp

JAPAN SAYS US READY FOR PATENT CONCESSIONSThe United States has said it will make concession

Mon., May 7, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K.

INDUSTRIAL GOODS ORDERS RISE 2.9 PERCENT IN GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - Demand for West

May 4, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

A Southeast Side airport, if built, would mirror O'Hare International in its bustling mix of domesti

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

1340 (May 4, 1990) Previous day - 1345 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

When John R. Jeffrey, chairman of Long Beach Container Terminal Inc., returned last August after a l

CF Truckload Service will use the presence of more than 3,000 executives at the International Interm

Fourteen large containership companies carrying Italian goods to customers in the United States inte

Philadelphia port officials want to push plans for an intermodal yard off the drawing board and into

CP Rail's pursuit of Delaware & Hudson Railway Co. may be at the make-or- break stage. Offic

When it comes to exporting, North Carolina has done all right for itself. The state consiste

Official projections of a 9.6 percent increase in South Korean electronics exports this year bring a

Empresa Naviera Santa SA plans to split its existing service between the United States and South Ame

The International Intermodal Expo opens here today, with 3,000 attendees including shippers, shipper

A new feud between rich and poor nations is endangering a tentative accord to bolster the Internatio

Credit insurers are closely watching the fallout from U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's new po

KEMPER CORP. TAKES $19 MILLION CHARGELONG GROVE, Ill. - Kemper Corp. is taking a $19.5 milli

One of Canada's biggest battery makers has just launched North America's first 100 percent mercury-f

Some insurance consultants call it "gaposis" - the gaps in policies that may eliminate the very cove

Cheri J. Hawkins, the new president of the Risk and Insurance Management Society, hopes her election

A&A SERVICES POSTS OPERATING INCOME DROPAlexander & Alexander Services Inc.'s operating inco

A section of Proposition 103 which allows banks in California to sell insurance has created a new ec

A federal judge levied a $115.5 million penalty against officers of the collapsed Champion Insurance

A study by the San Francisco Estuary Project on dredging problems in the San Francisco Bay finds tha

The U.S. Army's port and waterway engineers want to simplify the reports they require from carriers

FREIGHT FUTURES PRICES traded in a sideways range for most of last week, as holidays in shipping cen