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Toyota Motor Corp. became Japan's most profitable company this year when it reported Friday that sur

ASARCO INC. ACQUIRES OMI INTERNATIONALAsarco Inc. announced that it has completed the acquis

The control tower at John F. Kennedy International Airport will be replaced with a new one that's tw

Remember Dick Tracy's two-way wrist TV? A miniature computer display developed by a tiny start-up fi

China has banned the use of wood in seven industrial and product sectors, including coffin manufactu

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European spot oil prices ended the week on a gentle downward slope in sluggish summer trading in res

A congressional investigator said recently that he had found information suggesting ties between org

CAUSE DISPUTED IN SUBWAY BREAKDOWNSNEW YORK - Transit Authority officials blamed mechanical

WORLDWIDE PRODUCTION OF CIGARETTES UP 2.9 PERCENTWorld cigarette production climbed 2.9 perc

One of China's top government agencies has issued a directive to cut back on imports of feed-process

Machine tool orders fell sharply between June and July but remained well above their July 1987 level

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DOW RAISES PRICE OF CAUSTIC SODAMIDLAND, Mich. - Dow Chemical U.S.A. has notified customers

The White House Friday denied an allegation that it was pressuring the Federal Reserve to expand the

A major controversy over land use and management structure has erupted at the Port of Oakland prompt

Japan has no intention of abolishing the underwriting syndicate for 10-year government bonds, accord

BANKERS' ACCEPTANCES DECLINED IN JULYU.S. dollar bankers' acceptances fell $554 million in J

Top Stories Sales of imported cars are losing ground to domestic competition, as the Europea

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

Kuwait is nearing the end of a multibillion-dollar program to expand and modernize its domestic oil

Representatives of the Chicago and North Western Transportation Co. and the United Transportation Un

CORPS CLEARS TIMBERS FROM NY SHIP LANESFloating cranes cleared tons of rotting timbers from

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Tandy Corp. will move production of a variety of electronic products out of South Korea in the wake

Marine insurers have yielded to pressure to help promote greater merchant ship safety by tightening

Spurred on by more extensive air travel and a need to replace aging jets, the number of jetliners on

The Tokyo Stock Exchange has reprimanded two companies - including Japan's largest steelmaker - for

A recent rebound in the deutsche mark may be harbinger of a change in sentiment toward the dollar,

HIGH ROAD TO SIBERIA, as in fly to Alaska and turn left. For those Americans who just can't

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

An innovative lease agreement at the Port of Savannah, Ga., has fallen apart under pressure from ira

When contemplating Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance company, quick change or rapid evoluti

The U.S. market for hazardous waste disposal equipment and services is projected to rise a mere 5.8

The story, headlined IMF to Help Third World Absorb Rise in Bank Rates, on page 1A in The Journal of

Dallas-based FoxMeyer Drug Co., the nation's third-largest wholesale pharmaceutical distributor, sai

Led by a very strong Tokyo-Australia leg and a strong cargo business, Qantas expects to double its p

Ordernet Services has become the latest electronic data interchange communications network to restru

Standard & Poor's Corp. said Venezuela's $100 million floating rate Euronote issue due August 1993 w

Declines in a broad range of raw industrial materials prices pushed The Journal of Commerce Price In