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HAVANA FIRE DISRUPTS CUBAN PHONE SERVICEA telephone service fire in Havana over the weekend

First International Expo on Patents, High Technology & New Products. Nov. 18-23. Sponsored by the Pa

With container volume rising again, the Port of Tacoma expects next year's profits to continue to ri

Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. (NOL) this month has introduced the first of its three new containerships

TRADE CLUB TO HONOR GRANCOLOMBIANA AGENTThe World Trade Club of Greater New Orleans today wi

Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. was misidentified in a Nov. 14 Journal of Commerce story about the c

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A federal mediator will resolve a jurisdictional dispute at Baltimore's new container rail terminal,

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is making his second trip to India in two years this weekend in anot

WHITE CASTLE EXPANDS MALAYSIAN OPERATIONSCOLUMBUS, Ohio - White Castle System Inc. said it h

Nov. 15, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

In a further move to cool an overheated economy, China said it is canceling or delaying 43 construct

The race is on as forklifts on Monday tore across the tarmac loading cartons of new Beaujolais wine

Short Brothers PLC, the Belfast, Ireland-based airplane maker, has agreed that Catholic workers will

On the street, the illegal drug that is the active ingredient in marijuana is known as THC. At the d

Liam Strong, president of a U.S. subsidiary of Reckitt and Colman, was named to succeed Jim Harris a

The U.S. government and the biotechnology industry are joining forces, albeit somewhat tentatively,

International Minerals & Chemical Corp. subsidiary Mallinckrodt Inc., St. Louis, has launched a majo

American Breeders Service, a unit of W.R. Grace & Co., opened a new cloning research lab here.

Chlorine and caustic production for August increased marginally over the year-earlier period, accord

Allied-Signal Inc. of Elizabeth, N.J., has agreed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to e

DOW TO BOOST CAPACITY FOR LATEX AT 2 PLANTSMIDLAND, Mich. - Dow Chemical U.S.A. announced ad

Vessel overcapacity, coupled with common ownership, prompted Marlago SA and Venezuela Container Line

A Seattle port commissioner, asked by his colleagues not to represent the Port of Seattle, appeared

The three-week meeting to review the United Nations Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences is expecte

Congestion at Thailand's main containerport, Klong Toey, has largely disappeared, but many fear it i

Standard & Poor's Corp. may change the rating it assigns to $70 million of notes issued by Gotaas-La

LYNN NAMED PRESIDENT OF WOOLWORTH US UNITRobert G. Lynn was named president and chief execut

In an era when food trends are as fleeting as a frown on Paul Prudhomme's face, Helen Willinsky is t

As economic growth continues, Washington state highways are going to need about $30 billion in work

SPT PLANS TO EXPAND KANSAS YARD IN MERGERKANSAS CITY, Kan. - Southern Pacific Transportation

JAMAICA TO INCREASE EXPORTS OF GARMENTSForty executives of major U.S. retail stores, apparel

Tue., Nov. 15, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

CAUTIOUS STANCE URGED ON EC MONEY UNIONLONDON - The achievement of European monetary union s

The U.S. Export-Import Bank's financial condition is deteriorating, bank officials disclosed Tuesday

Up to 2 percent of the value of trade between the 12 European Community countries could be saved aft

Keep off of my turf. That's the message information industry members want to send to governm

Canada's swelling debt, ignored in the election campaign, must be tackled by the next government or

Unisys Corp. has been fined $810,000 for overcharging the Army $250,000 on a contract during 1985 an

IBM MAKES ADVANCES IN LOCAL AREA NETWORKInternational Business Machines Corp. has upgraded i