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AIR CONDITIONING MACHINERY shippers are keeping mum on their plans to oppose new density ratings for

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts spends less today on its highway system, in constant dollars, than

ILLINOIS CENTRAL WINS UTILITY SUIT SETTLEMENTIllinois Central Railroad has received $14.3 mi

XTRA Corp. reported fourth quarter earnings of $6.5 million, or 85 cents a share on revenue of $58.2

EMULSIONS UP AT ROHM & HAASRohm & Haas Co. announced price increases effective Feb. 1, 1989,

With landfills filling rapidly throughout the country, most communities are grappling with how to ma

During the last few weeks, the media have latched on with a bulldog grip to the news of the latest i

100 FIRMS SETTLE TOXIC WASTE LAWSUITMore than 100 companies have agreed to pay $66 million t

Corn breeder Richard Pratt came to the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster

The next few years should determine how many of America's hundreds of property/casualty insurance co

A federal judge indicated Wednesday he probably will approve a proposed $48 million settlement for 8

MERRILL LYNCH EXPECTS FURTHER DOLLAR DECLINENEW YORK - U.S. interest rates are expected to e

* Customs Update 4A * Howard Simon - Simon Says 6A* Eugene J. Milosh - The Nature of Soviet

Dec. 8, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Eastern Airlines contends that the pilots' union's request for a continuing fitness review of the tr

EDSON EXPRESS INC. (Thornton, Colo.) - Roberta Brodsky and Carl Morgan were named account representa

The subzone aspect of the U.S. free trade zone program, when looked at carefully, behaves like Dr. J

Women who accept a $725 compensation offer for injuries caused by Dalkon Shield birth-control device

Insurance agents' groups are fulfilling their pledge to take the issue of transfer of insurance powe

HARMONIZED SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION - QUOTA CLASS TEXTILES. Customs has established the following proce

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

Trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade were extendedthrough today in the tepid

SENDING SIGNALS can be a big part of economic policy, and President-elect Bush's top economic advise

GERMAN PAYMENTS MOVES INTO SURPLUSFRANKFURT, West Germany - West Germany has swung into a ba

Several Caribbean states that have enjoyed preferential access to the European Community are fearing

The U.S. Commerce Department is devising a strategy to respond to the Soviet foreign trade offensive

The Royal Hong Kong Police, one of the largest single forces in the world, is getting one of the wor

Sun Co.'s recent $600 million acquisition of Atlantic Petroleum Co.'s northeastern refining and mark

Misuse does not have to be the Achille's heel of computing, according to computer security experts.

Theirs is not to reason why. Theirs is to EDI or die. Or such was the message coming out of

1486 (Dec. 8, 1988) Previous day - 1485 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

A further step into the new era of ship mechanization was taken last week when a Danish builder deli

We believe the time has come for the (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) to link trade to respe

Italy's leading private industrialist urged the adoption of a common currency among the 12 members o

DOLLAR-DRY DOCK SAVINGS BANK (White Plains, N.Y.) - Nicholas P. Rizzetta was named executive vice pr

The might of the Canadian dollar, while a product of foreign confidence in the Canadian economy, is

Air Cargo Fast Flow, the $20 million automation effort designed to speed cargo through John F. Kenne

Japanese companies are scaling down their operations in South Africa in recognition of the global pr

State officials plan to build a four-lane highway connecting the New JerseyTurnpike to Route

WHILE BRAZIL IS CUTTING DOWN its forests, Chile is busy planting them. Alfredo Woerner, the