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William Loftus will be named president of the American Short Line Railroad Association, reliable sou

Japanese commodities traders are projecting a continuing slide in soybean imports from the United St

More than $7 million in new equipment at an expanded Mitsui O.S.K. Ltd. terminal in Seattle is cutti

American Electric Power Service Corp. said it's scouting the market for spot coal needed in the four

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent)is as f

PHOSPHORUS FMC Corp. of Philadelphia is increasing its list price for phosphorus pentasulfid

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

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For the second time in less than three months, the U.S. Customs Service voided a multimillion-dollar

The Soviet Union's independent labor movement is rapidly gaining strength. Yelena Maltseva i

EXPLOSION DESTROYS TAIWAN CHEMICAL PLANTTAIPEI, Taiwan - An explosion ripped through an unli

The U.S. Postal Service plans within the next several months to triple the number of gateway cities

Managing an ethnically diverse work force, rethinking business relations with China and pricing Cana

The National Grocers Association is strongly discouraging the practice of truckers backhauling hazar

Paring the supply of alcohol to alcohol-based chemical industries in Brazil to handle a pending shor

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

U.S. coal producers should be knocking on the doors of Britain's two new electricity generating comp

Already beset by a soaring trade deficit and a plunge in hard currency income, Chinese officials are

The Linde division of Union Carbide Corp. of Danbury, Conn. raised prices for industrial gases 7 per

Non-farm payrolls will grow only modestly in the next two years, without a recession, DRI/McGraw-Hil

The nation's biggest retailers Thursday issued mixed sales reports for August, with department and a

Three senators urged the Bush administration Thursday to make South Korea's exchange-rate policy par

Policyholders of an insolvent Philadelphia insurance company have sued the carrier's former accounti

Sixty-seven Japanese petroleum and trading firms will contribute about 1.1 billion yen ($7.6 million

The Energy Department said it has received 47 proposals from the sponsors of advanced coal burning d

MAXUS ENERGY CORP. (Dallas) - Several executive appointments were announced, all effective today.

RYDER SYSTEM INC. (Miami) - Gerry W. Bass, 56, was named executive vice president, parts, of the av

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Margy Johnson apologizes to out-of-town diners for the service at her harborfront inn, the Reluctant

B+H Management Ltd., Bermuda, is creating a new company to add to its stable of shipping firms.<

A major U.S. bank is prepared to take a 10 percent stake in Lexmar Corp.'s project to take over a ba

Eastern states coal producers enter Labor Day weekend wondering if they'll soon be faced with anothe

Air New Zealand has reported an operating profit of NZ$82.99 million for the fiscal 1989 year, which

French Minister of the Sea Jacques Mellick said Thursday that he had won morefunds than he h

P&I Seminar. Sept. 6-8. London. Sponsored by Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. Ramada Hotel, 10 Berners S

Bureaucratic upheavals, logistical problems and a new harvest may slow Soviet purchases of U.S. grai

Dr. Frank Schwartz appreciates sharks as only a scientist can. Fifteen times a summer, Dr. S

IRS EXTENDS DEADLINE TO COMPLY ON BENEFITSThe Internal Revenue Service extended for two mont

The British offshoot of North America's biggest airline service organization has embarked on a major

The Federal Maritime Commission will meet behind closed doors Sept. 6 to discuss an investigation of