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Corning Glass Works said Monday it has reached preliminary agreement with Asahi Glass Co. of Japan t

Federal safety authorities Monday urgently asked the Federal Aviation Administration to address safe

HOW ABOUT LETTING US in on the action? might be asked by customs brokers of the lastest actions by t

An explosion ripped through a Dutch coastal cargo ship carrying a load of stones and chemicals in no

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

CASTRO INTERVENES IN TOOTHPASTE SHORTAGEHAVANA, Cuba - A recurring shortage of locally made

Two Suzuki Samurai owners filed class-action lawsuits against the vehicle's Japanese manufacturer an

Agents fear that New York state will become a key target for banks looking to expand their involveme

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. completed the purchase of Champion International Corp.'s electronic co

Workers at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique, France's last remaining major shipyard, returned to work M

Domestic exports to the United States were 10 percent lower in May than a year earlier, and for the

Prices for crude oil, gasoline and home heating oil continued to slide on the New York Mercantile Ex

For the week ended June 25 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 11

Kuwait will charter for 24 months a U.S.-flag, subsidy-built tanker to go with the 11 of its own tha

The complicated set of stock transactions and vessel charters announced last week among four existin

DOCKWORKERS PICKET AT PORT CANAVERALATLANTA No disruption in operations was reported at Por

A directory, The North American Cruise Industry 1988, has been published by Nissen-Lie Consult Inc.<

Sea-Land Service Inc.'s proposed vessel chartering deal with Waterman Steamship Corp. would be a mod

U.S. consumers took on $2.421 billion more in consumer installment credit than they paid off in May,

UNOCAL CORP. STATIONS WIDEN CREDIT CARD USEUnocal Corp. said it will begin linking its weste

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration last week effectively ruled out any prospects for ne

Computer assembly might seem unlikely in the middle of the nation's largest national forest, but the

The explosion last week of the North Sea oil rig Piper Alpha will not cause a sustained rally in pri

QANTAS PLACES ORDER FOR THREE BOEING JETSSEATTLE - Qantas, the Australian international airl

The Tennessee Valley Authority is staving off drought-related operating problems at its coal-fired

The second 125,000-kilowatt generating unit of the Hunan Dongjiang (East River) hydropower station,

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index showed upward movement last week, although it fell sl

JAPANESE GOLD DEALERS CUT THEIR COMMISSIONSTanaka Kikinzoku K.K. and other bullion dealers i

No further talks have been scheduled between the United States and the Soviet Union in reaching term

U.S. companies should set up subsidiaries in the European Community now or face tougher Community re

The series of chartering deals announced last week among Waterman Marine Corp., Farrell Lines Inc. a

COULD WISHFUL THINKING have prompted the recent suggestion that W. Graham Claytor was about to resig

American President Cos. is coming close to ending its ties to California's gold rush with the sale o

In a budget-cutting move, the Dutch government plans to cancel part of a submarine construction proj

In a spinoff from Star Wars" research, scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas have found a

DOW CHEMICAL RAISES PRICESMIDLAND, Mich. - The Dow Chemical Co. announced price increases fo

Hong Kong has overtaken Japan as the United States' top trading partner for U.S. polished, loose dia

Ferranti Instrumentation Ltd.'s commercial instrument department has introduced anupgraded version o

In a rare display of state and private-sector cooperation, Greece plans to launch an unprecedented b

A useful technology creates its own demand. A useless one dies. Videotex has been declared a