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Himont to Build Plant in Tenn.WILMINGTON, Del. - Himont Inc. announced plans to build a 50 m

Don't expect to find astronomer Wayne Roberge gazing upward in wonder at the starry firmament.

Has Ed Hale built a better mousetrap? Edwin F. Hale, 41, is president of Port East Transfer

TNT, the Australian-based transport group, confirmed orders Wednesday for three more British Aerospa

Pan Am's board was scheduled to meet late Wednesday to review efforts to wring further concessions f

TWA, ACF Industries Join Forces in DealTrans World Airlines Inc. announced one-half of TWA's

In 1985-86, China, as a place to invest and do business, received a bad press. Stories of American M

Joint Venture to Design Taiwan Subway SystemA joint venture of De Leuw Cather International

Federal Railroad Administration safety inspectors Wednesday began an evaluation of the strike-bound

The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement has postponed until Jan. 15 a planned crane surcharge on c

The Export-Import Bank of the United States will open an office in Baltimore in conjunction with sta

Surety Pacific Is First Hawaiian Captive FirmPHOENIX, Ariz. - Hawaii State Insurance Commiss

Britain's wool textiles industry is now turning its attention to the United States, having made sign

The United States assailed a new European Community rice subsidy program, claiming it will hurt U.S.

Southern Co. Services Inc. said it purchased 280,000 tons of coal on the spot market for consumption

If OPEC sets quotas close to 17.6 million barrels a day based on forecasts of demand in 1988 by econ

Heating oil prices posted seasonal increases in New York state during the week of Nov. 27-Dec. 3, bu

A brother and a son of Mayor Eugene Sawyer have recently acquired two trucking companies that have c

A Singapore-flagged tanker continued to burn Wednesday in the Strait of Hormuz, but tugboats had sto

Leading members of President Reagan's Cabinet and the European Commission embark today on two days o

Sweeping changes and reforms in the way insurers can sell and advertise long- term care insurance an

The Federal Crop Insurance Corp. overpaid farmers by as much as 31 percent in settling claims for lo

Supplies of distillate oil and gasoline increased, according to the American Petroleum Institute's l

The country's largest association of private customs attorneys said it will oppose a key provision i

AIR CARGO Europe's liberalized air transport agreement isn't expected to have much impact on

The Port Authority of Genoa (CAP) has announced the signing of two key labor agreements. Bot

The farms sit side-by-side in some of the richest land for growing wheat without irrigation in the U

CMS Energy Corp., Jackson, Mich., has lined up more natural gas supplies for its Midland cogeneratio

The Containerization and Intermodal Institute is offering half-price dues for any shipper who joins

The natural gas industry is well positioned to expand its market share, American Gas Association Cha

Acrylamide Price Up at NationalBRIDGEWATER, N.J. - National Starch & Chemical Corp. is incre

Southern California Gas Co's lowest-cost supplier with whjch it has a firm natural gas supply contra

United Airlines reported its total cargo ton-miles were 1.12 billion, up 23.9 percent from 899.9 mil

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The United States and the Soviet Union reached a compromise on Soviet textile shipments to the Unite

Two U.S.-flagged Kuwaiti tankers and a chartered U.S. military tankerentered the Persian Gulf Wednes

The American Legion, one of the nation's most powerful veterans' lobbies, has reaffirmed its longsta

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Sterling Drug Inc. exercised options to license two diagnostic imaging agents now under development

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new domestic regulations restricting production and