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The Department of Transportation is not properly managing its new drug- testing program for workers

WAITING PERIOD ENDS FOR ATLAS-ICI MERGERThe proposed merger between Atlas Powder and Britain

Brazilian President-elect Fernando Collor de Mello said he will send a government economic team to W

FED EASING PREDICTED TO SPARK GNP IN '90Easing begun last year by the Federal Reserve will l

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ONE YEAR does not a trade liberalization accord make. Think-tanks, banks, economists and gov

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Illinois Central Railroad Co. earned $8 million in the fourth quarter onrevenue of $139.8 million. T

An estimated 1,000 insurance producers protesting commission reductions swarmed into a public hearin

An Occidental Chemical Co. official at Occidental Petroleum Co.'s Los Angeles headquarters said Frid

The president of the largest farm organization in the European Community said French farmers cannot

The dollar will remain in a narrow trading range until a clearer picture emerges of thecondition of

The world's automakers are loading up their cars with advanced new safety technology as a way to mak

While most of the commuters on the 7:35 morning train from Stockholm to Vasteras are reading newspap

The number of workers going on strike or returning to work was small in January and should barely af

Talks between U.S. and Soviet maritime delegations ended last week without an agreement. "Th

Stolt Tankers and Terminals (Holdings) SA posted a profit of $70.9 million for the fiscal year endin

Sause Brothers Ocean Towing Co. said it has launched the tank barge Klamath on its maiden voyage.

Pittston Co. and Mapco Coal Inc. have won three-year contracts to supply coking coal to Egypt's Al N

Jan. 26, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

JAPAN'S ASAHI BOOSTS STAKE IN BELGIUM'S AGBRUSSELS, Belgium - The Japanese group Asahi Mutua

A new oil pipeline that connects the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean will transport crude oil to

For the week ended Jan. 20, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's majorrailroads, which is

Monsanto Co. will extend an eight-year joint biomedical research agreement with Washington Universit

Investor Jon Huntsman has enlisted the aid of GE Plastics in his battle to wrest away Aristech Chemi

Bechtel Group has landed a $30 million pipeline project in Singapore, its first turnkey construction

The Trading With Israel column published on Page 4A in The Journal of Commerce of Thursday, Jan. 25,

CANADA TO RESUME AID TO SOUTHEAST ASIA AREACanada, saying the world must make peace in Cambo

The Soviet Union plans to adopt new regulations that will allow Soviet citizens to import copying eq

The parent of Kansas City Southern Railway reported last week that a 26 percent increase in its 1989

China will seek to reduce domestic demand and concentrate on strengthening its basic industries, sai

China intends to sharply increase coal production through the rest of the decade to meet domestic ne

The U.S. Postal Service effort to attract additional international business reply mail is a direct a

JAPAN'S OUTPUT SLOWS; INFLATION RATE SOARSThe Japanese inflation rate soared and production

Jury selection begins today in what promises to be the most watched maritime- related court case in

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

European insurers are bracing themselves after last week's storms for what could be their largest ev

Taro Nakayama, Japanese foreign affairs minister, asked Saudi Arabia to continue letting Arabian Oil

U.S. transportation officials awarded two South American airlines the right to begin air cargo servi

United Airlines cargo ton-miles for December were 117.8 million, up 1.2 percent from 116.4 million a