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Wed., Oct. 18, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

National Frozen Food Association, convention and exhibition, Oct. 22-24. Contact: NFFA, (717) 534-16

CONRAIL EARNINGS UP 5 PERCENT IN QUARTERConsolidated Rail Corp. earned $87 million, or $1.27

The Department of Transportation seems ready to take some "common-sense" steps to improve its implem

An aggressive feeder line established in Thailand, Regional Container Lines Co., is expanding furthe

The U.S. Postal Service carries more than letters, and health department officials in Englewood, N.J

UPS AIR UNIT TO BUILD NEW KY. HEADQUARTERSLOUISVILLE, Ky. - United Parcel Service Inc. Wedne

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Efforts by an American seamen's union to organize workers aboard U.S.-owned ships flying the flags o

Mobile telephones have become the rage in international business communications , but the popular co

Brazil's calendar 1989 federal budget deficit through September totaled the equivalent of $8.943 bil

The number of poor people in the United States stayed about the same last year as in 1987 even as pe

Jammed telephone lines and a blackout in downtown San Francisco slowed claims calls to insurers and

Just before 11 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time Wednesday, Theo Bosch got a callfrom his company's

The three major railroads that serve the Bay Area - the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Atchison

The U.S. dollar declined Wednesday on news about the California earthquake and worries about the sto

Thomas M. Fiorentino was named chief of staff of the Federal Railroad Administration, reporting to A

Motorcyclists and state officials joined Tuesday in opposing legislation to withhold some federal hi

The elevated section of Oakland's Nimitz Freeway that collapsed in Tuesday's earthquake was slated f

Ports need to get actively involved in the war on drugs to avoid losing business, according to a spo

1545 (Oct. 18, 1989) Previous day - 1516 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

The National Security Council's "unclassified summary" of the national security sealift policy cover

The stock prices of many U.S. construction and engineering firms jumped by 5 percent to 10 percent i

Dow Chemical Co. said Wednesday that third-quarter earnings fell 7 percent on lower demand for polye

Committed to buying more and more foreign beef, but apparently incapable of inducing retailers to st

The U.S. Customs Service has two "aspirins" for the headaches American importers and exporters are l

The Port of Oakland's Seventh Street peninsula where several shipping lines call appears to have sus

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ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORP. (El Segundo, Calif.) - Robert D. Paster has been appointed president of

The helicopter deaths of three of Donald Trump's key Atlantic City, N.J., Casino executives last wee

The volume of imports by China and the Soviet Union mainly will determine whether wheat prices rise

Cargo and passenger airlines expected to return to normal operations in the San Francisco-Oakland Ba

Air express services suffered only moderate disruptions in the wake of Tuesday evening's devastating

NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES BUYS 340 REEFER BOXESNeptune Orient Lines Ltd. is purchasing 340 new re

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

House Agriculture Committee members accused the Food and Drug Administration of understating the hea

Trade with Japan seems likely to remain an imbalanced flow of more Japanese goods into the United St

qIndustrialized nations this week endorsed a U.S. proposal to draw up a timetable for phasing out sh

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

Applications to build oceangoing ships under this year's official shipbuilding loan program are near