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NEW FREIGHTLINER TRUCK KNOWN AS 'SLEEPER CAB'PORTLAND, Ore. - Freightliner Corp.'s new Class

1426 (Aug. 25, 1989) Previous day - 1427 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Williams Natural Gas Co., an interstate natural gas pipeline, is between a rock and a hard place.

Air cargo tends to be made up of disproportionately high-value, lighter- weight goods. The p

OPEC HEADS OF STATE EXPECTED TO MEETHeads of state of at least several members of the Organi

IT'S AUGUST; TIME TO PLAY with the plastic overlay maps again. With Congress away (the Repub

CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN TRANSPORTATION CO. (Chicago) - Jeffrey H. Koch was promoted to vice presid

Seven hospitals in Massachusetts agreed to lower rates charged private insurers after lue Cross-Blue

Police in Malaysia are investigating an alleged fraud that may have cost an insurance company 3 mill

GROUP FILES PLAN TO CUT SC PREMIUMSCOLUMBIA, S.C. - Insurance rates in two major lines of co

West Germany's 1976 Co-Determination Act covers joint-stock companies, limited partnership companies

The French Axa-Midi insurance group, which has joined Anglo-French financier Sir James Goldsmith in

South Korean exporters are looking to Europe for a secure market as they diversify away from the Uni

A European Community leader Friday told Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki he could count on t

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REGIONAL BLOCS Doing Business in Israel: Meeting the Challenge of 1992. Sept. 11. Short<

International Business Machines Corp. has formed a joint venture with a Singapore government-backed

TAIWAN NOT DUMPING MARTIAL ARTS UNIFORMSThe International Trade Commission reversed itself l

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index may signal slight inflationpressure next year

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Friday said some governing members of the Chicago Board of

Daimler-Benz, West Germany's largest company, soon may become bigger still. The Stuttgart-ba

Mark C. Fellner has joined Elders Futures Inc. as a specialist in the metals and foreign exchange gr

Foreign direct investment in the United States will continue to increase by $40 billion to $50 billi

COCOA FUTURES SET NEW CONTRACT LOWSCocoa futures slumped to post a new set of contract lows

Researchers gazed at stark images of rips and tears in the white carcass of the Edmund Fitzgerald, b

FEDNAV LTD. (Montreal) - Ted H. Winter was named executive vice president and chief operating office

Shipowners' protection and indemnity associations are having to collect more money from their member

Officials at Phillips 66 Co. are expected to announce how long its Houston petrochemical plant will

The Maritime Administration has sold its rights to a sunken Liberty ship to Hugh O'Neill and Brian H

The story "Comex Suspends, Fines Semel & Co.," in The Journal of Commerce, Aug. 25, Page 6A, mistake

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

LINGERING DROUGHT DRAINS GRAIN RESERVESThis year's lingering drought in major wheat areas co

Jim Emery was by no means a unanimous choice for the position when he was named by President Reagan

A plunge in world coffee prices, following the collapse of the International Coffee Agreement in Jul

AIR PRODUCTS RAISES INDUSTRIAL GAS PRICESAir Products and Chemicals Inc. of Allentown, Pa. w

HOW TO USE: The following government bid opportunities are among the hundreds of such opport

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In 1983 when Jim Emery took the helm of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp., the agency overse

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The Soviet Union, striving to improve its overall transport system, is actively beefing up its inter