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Friendly bar keepers allow regular patrons to run up high tabs. But behind the scenes, the booze bus

As a federal grand jury decides whether he should be prosecuted, a graduate student linked to a viru

Orient Overseas Container Line said it plans to boost capacity between the Far East and Europe in pr

More than 6,000 American merchant sailors who died at sea in wartime and peacetime will be honored w

The Shipping Corp. of New Zealand said it has sold two containerships to Hong Kong-based subsidiarie

EX-CHAIRMAN OF FMC RETURNS TO CAPITOL HILLRichard J. Daschbach, former chairman of the Feder

A state-of-the-art radar system to monitor shipping will enter service in July, aimed at heading off

President Reagan's fiscal 1990 budget formally asks Congress to let the U.S. St. Lawrence Seaway age

The name of the U.K. shipping minister, Lord Brabazon, was misspelled in an article that appeared in

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FRENCH FIRM TO SUPPLY TRAINS TO SPAINAlsthom Inc., the French rail equipment manufacturer, h

Conrail and MassCentral Railroad said the long-awaited double-stack service into Palmer, Mass., will

Daredevil skateboarders, dressed like Winter Olympic luge racers, have been speeding down steep hill

Most railroad industry insiders shrugged off the proposed federal budget for fiscal 1990 as soon as

New Jersey's 14 milk handlers are puzzled and upset over the disappearance of thousands of plastic m

Truckers handling most of Jamaica's containerized export cargo say they are suspending their service

When the container age began in 1958, Raphael Che was still a grade school student in Hong Kong.

The Reagan administration's fiscal 1990 budget calls for 150 new inspectors to police unsafe trucks

The former parent of bankrupt United States Lines Inc. may become part of a larger restructuring of

Carnival Cruise Lines Inc. said it signed a definitive agreement for the previously announced purcha

WISCONSIN TISSUE MILLS ACQUIRES CPS DIVISIONMENASHA, Wis. - Wisconsin Tissue Mills Inc. has

A conference on sea pollution held in Piraeus, Greece's principal port, has launched an appeal for g

International Shipholding Corp.'s offering to sell 800,000 shares of common stock should net the com

With more than 325 stores opened over the past four years and more expected this year, it's no wonde

When Roy Rogers needed to get Trigger to the United Kingdom for a 1954 European tour, he booked a st

The insurance office for the New Jersey School Boards Association is suing an investment firm and a

ILL. RESIDENTS BEGIN CLEANUP FROM TWISTERStunned residents of Allendale, Ill., on last Sunda

AMERICAN UNIVERSAL INSURANCE GROUP (Providence, R.I.) - Peter E. Fallon, chief operating officer of

The American Insurance Association, Insurance Information Institute and Insurance Services Office, I

Rep. Lane Evans, D-Ill., said he will cosponsor a bill authored by Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., calli

The union that includes most of New York state's prison guards announced a new insurance program las

An appeals court reneged on its earlier decision and tossed out a victory for the American Insurance

London's influential aviation insurers fear that even after two major air crashes in less than three

Europe's electronics industry could be reshaped in what appears to be Britain's biggest takeover bat

Michigan's old standard, the pea bean, has become a popular new item in Zimbabwe. The pea be

BRAZIL TO DEVALUE CRUZADO 1,000-FOLDBRASILIA, Brazil - As part of its renewed efforts agains

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The Supreme Court Monday declined to review the concept of dividing product liability trials into th

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The Justice Department will pursue a criminal investigation in the $1.5 billion failure of Mission I