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The British government disclosed Wednesday that it is planning record spending on improvements to tr

SFSP Finalizes Sale Of Bankers to CiticorpCiticorp and Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. have

Gears from the Puna Sugar Mill in Hawaii were loaded recently at the port of Honolulu aboard the Lai

Union Threatens Strike At GM Truck PlantsPONTIAC, Mich. - The United Auto Workers union has

Australian cattlemen believe they will be the immediate beneficiaries if the United States succeeds

U.S. sugar producers are increasingly optimistic that the current U.S. sugar program will remain int

Xerox Corp. introduced a new electronic typewriter Tuesday that has an attached computer screen to d

Police are searching for two brothers arrested in connection with the bankruptcy of a local bank aft

New federal regulations have triggered a fierce competition between three natural gas pipeline compa

Rep. Augustus Hawkins, D-Calif., has called on the General Accounting Office to investigate allegati

LTV Missile Unit Gets Chilean Aviation JobBUFFALO, N.Y. - LTV Missiles and Electronics Group

Legislation to end the grain handlers' strike at the port of Prince Rupert passed through the House

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

Joint Venture Hotels Banned for '88 in ChinaChina will not approve the construction of new j

A prominent aerospace organization is calling for a national commitment to a vigorous space program

In 1985, health-care spending in the United States outstripped 21 foreign countries by 40 percent as

The Trans-Soviet container service linking the Orient and Western Europe will see dynamic expansion

Mass. Blues Drop Plan To Reduce Work ForceBlue Cross-Blue Shield of Massachusetts says it ha

A jury has awarded an AIDS victim and her sons $750,000 in what was described as the first medical m

The port of Los Angeles sees strong growth potential in serving the Midwest, and is re-establishing

A new economic law in the U.S. commercial truck market says that when thedollar goes up, Ja

Matlack Celebrating Its 100th BirthdayWILMINGTON, Del. - Matlack Inc. will be celebrating it

A new high-tech pesticide triggered by light causes insects to die within seconds, but should be saf

Gulf States Utilities Co. has asked a state district court to overturn a Louisiana rate decision tha

Iraq was France's primary oil supplier in November, during a successful boycott of oil from Iran, fo

Longshoremen on the Pacific Northwest docks are back at work this week after walking off the job for

An arbitrator in the dispute between Mack Trucks Inc. and the United Auto Workers extended a contest

Longshoremen at the port of Montreal have ceased their rotating walkouts following the appointment o

The military government of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida said it will privatize all or part of 96 state-own

The prosecution Tuesday demanded one-year prison terms for two former executives of Toshiba Machine

Not since the 1960s has there been as much construction going on at the Port Authority of New York a

GUESSING IS BEGINNING over who will be Conrail's next chief executive. A board search commit

Grain Shipments Hit Record Levels in '87U.S. railroads hauled a record volume of 5.108 billi

Three men representing the Norwegian Shipowners' Association and war-risk insurance interests left f

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange designated Salomon Brothers as the specialist and primary market mak

A British company has developed signaling and control systems for use in mines and quarries. The SR

Traders May Need New Coffee Price RulesFRANKFURT, W. Germany - Consumer members of the Inter

The complexity of the International Cocoa Organization's newly adopted stock withholding program cou

King Fahd, who scrapped a newly imposed income tax on expatriates earlier this month, also has froze

After decades of teaching quality control to the world while ignoring it back home, U.S. manufacture