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CONTINENTAL AIRLINES (Houston) - John W. Nelson was named executive vice president, marketing. Most

When United Parcel Service Inc. announced last August that it would create an airline to ferry packa

Fears that France's Socialist government will cave in to public sector employees' inflationary wage

The United States will continue to pursue a new five-year bilateral grain accord with the Soviet Uni

International Shipholding Corp. said it signed an agreement in principle to buy Waterman Marine Corp

MARK IV INDUSTRIES ACQUIRES ARMTEK CORP.NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Mark IV Industries has completed

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For the week ended Oct. 1, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 12

The French insurance industry is healthier than generally believed, according to a study by the Fren

The government has set up a panel of senior officials to ensure that state- owned industries and tra

Margaret Thatcher may run Britain from No. 10 Downing St. while Queen Elizabeth II rules her subject

Spurred by hundreds of complaints, the Department of Insurance Thursday said it has warned an Illino

The insurance industry lobbied until the last minute, but members of Congress finally threw in the t

The fall in the dollar last week may mark the beginning of a long-term period of dollar weakness, tr

A California company plans to take home its profits from China - generated through the production an

Despite projections of low growth at the start year, West Germany's economy could expand 3.5 percent

The high-stakes marketing war over whose personal computer should set the standard for the rest of t

Negotiators for the port, the International Longshoremen's Association and Meehan Seaway Services we

Top U.S. trade officials, intent on driving down the nation's huge trade deficit, will hold a nation

Gov. Richard Casey of Pennsylvania is due to sign into law this week a capital budget bill that will

Last week, the mood among brokers in London was one of increasing optimism. The big uncertainty, of

Oil prices surged ahead last week on the possibility that the Persian Gulf members of the Organizati

Confirmation this week that the West German trading group Klockner & Co. may have lost as much as DM

Union Carbide Corp.'s UCAR Emulsion Systems group announced price increases, effective Nov. 1, 1988,

Brazil's two leading handgun manufacturers would rather have the protected Brazilian firearms market

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

U.S. District Court Judge George H. Revercomb, who earlier refused to prevent the Military Sealift C

The Coast Guard disclosed that it has tripled its staff handling the huge backlog of 43,000 applicat

Southern Co. Services Inc. is scouting the market for spot coal needed beginning in January at Geor

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

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'Deutschland' Set Sail 140 Years AgoFRANKFURT, West Germany - Saturday will mark the 140th a

The Marine Society of the City of New York. Quarterly luncheon meeting. Oct. 17. The Whitehall Club.

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A surge in imports to record levels sent the seasonally adjusted U.S. August trade deficit soaring t

Companies in West Germany are demanding more information about the European Community's plans to cre

Plans for a $150 million barge-carrying vessel capable of moving the equivalent of 12,000 20-foot co

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

British Airways is further accelerating development of its international wholesale courier operation

JAPAN'S IDEMITSU TO BUY AUSTRALIAN COAL RIGHTSIdemitsu Kosan Co. of Japan will acquire all r