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SOVIETS BOOK WHEAT UNDER US BONUS PLANKANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Soviet Union Tuesday booked 125

A modest recovery in aluminum prices is likely in 1990 and 1991 mainlybecause of supply fund

Recent price hikes for polyvinyl chloride indicate that this sector of the plastics business could b

Despite two pleas from U.S. sweetener users for an immediate 150,000- to 250,000- short-ton increase

In a significant personnel shift, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has transferred one of the U.S.

Copper prices should average around 115 cents per pound (US$2,535 a metric ton) in 1990, and any cha

A recent ruling ordering General Reinsurance Corp. and Cigna Reinsurance Co. to honor asbestos-relat

Hoylake Investments Ltd. plans to continue with its nine-month-long takeover battle for BAT Industri

PA. PHYSICIANS OPPOSE AUTO REFORM LAWHARRISBURG, Pa. - The Pennsylvania Medical Society, rep

Major disasters killed some 15,000 people in 1989, compared with 50,000 in 1988, and caused at least

Edward Iurchenko, general manager for Aeroflot in Canada, is extremely direct when he sizes up the S

1462 (Apr. 10, 1990) Previous day - 1462 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Ports in Singapore and Seattle this summer will begin carrying out electronic data interchange of sh

''Caldwell Represents Hoegh- Ugland," which appeared on Page 3B of The Journal of Commerce Tuesday,

Apr. 10, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

Benny Holland Jr. was elected to serve the unexpired term as president of the International Longshor

The Port of Bellingham, Wash., doesn't get too many requests to waive landing and dock fees for extr

QUARTEL SWORN IN AS FMC MEMBERDonald R. Quartel was sworn in as the newest member of the Fed

Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk Line received an award Tuesdayfrom the United Nat

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BECHTEL WINS CONTRACT FOR HONG KONG PROJECTHONG KONG - Bechtel Inc. was awarded the first pr

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S.J. Hofstra might be piloting one of KLM's combis if he hadn't washed out in pilot training. So the

Making a reasonable profit with Soviet air freighters is easier said than done. That's the c

After two years of negotiations, a group of Japanese companies agreed to increase substantially thei

May crude oil plunged 79 cents to close at an eight-month low of $17.65 a barrel on the New York Mer

A Saudi Arabian newspaper, alarmed by a sharp fall in world oil prices, Tuesday warned members of th

ARGENTINE RAIL UNION PLANS NATIONAL STRIKEBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - As the government took s

VENEZUELA TO LOWER IMPORT DUTIES BY 30 PERCENTCARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela is to reduce im

Japanese efforts to label a meeting of the Group of 7 nations a success in winning support for the y

The U.S. dollar declined against most major currencies Tuesday, but remained strong against the yen.

In heated special sessions last weekend, the Brazilian Congress voted to ax 21 of 24 government agen

MEXICO LISTS 1.8 PERCENT RISE IN ITS CONSUMER PRICESMEXICO CITY - Mexican consumer prices ro

Sir Leon Brittan, European Community competition commissioner, said last week in Bonn that the EC's

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

NORTH AMERICA EXPO '90. April 17-19. Uniondale, N.Y. New York State Restaurant Association's

The United States and the European Community struck a compromise in their wrangle over including agr

WEST POINT-PEPPERELL SELLS ARTHUR SANDERSONWest Point-Pepperell Inc. sold its U.K. unit, Art

Mexican and U.S. government efforts to move toward a free trade agreement are drawing mixed reaction

A day after its block-busting deal with the Soviet Union, Pepsico Inc. completed a more conventional