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Trucking companies, with assistance from railroads like the Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad, are fu

LCP Chemical and Plastics Inc. was recently back in business four weeks after it shut down to correc

Big Rivers Rural Electric Cooperative, which defaulted two years ago on $1.4 billion owed the federa

Minnegasco Inc., the Minneapolis gas utility, has received federal permission to import natural gas

S. Korea Strike Affects Northwestern ServicesST. PAUL - Northwest Airlines temporarily cance

Management of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad has rejected a plan by its striking labor unions t

Even history is big business in this nation of traders. Investors now have an opportunity to

Sri Lanka has asked for international support in repairing its economy, damaged by a four-year civil

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AT&T and Ricoh Co. announced an agreement for the manufacture and distribution in Japan of a modifie

Comments Asked By Oct. 9 on APL BidThe Maritime Administration set Oct. 9 as the deadline fo

Alexander & Alexander Services Inc. has agreed to sell its Shand, Morahan & Co. Inc., subsidiary to

The finance ministers of Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, Latin America's three biggest debtors, formed

Greece is still a country of spray-painted socialist slogans on public buildings, apartment block fr

Fri., Sept. 25, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Castle & Cooke Inc., the parent of Dole Foods, agreed Friday to buy the California agricultural oper

Procter & Gamble Co. held on to its top ranking among the leading national advertisers in 1986 even

Firms Link to Develop Cervical Cancer TestPALO ALTO, Calif. - Syva, a division of Syntex Cor

Arch of Kentucky Inc. will supply 8,100 tons of steam coal to the Tennessee Valley Authority under t

A top Nuclear Regulatory Commission official says Boston Edison Co.'s plan to restart the troubled P

Argentina hopes to secure oil supplies from Iran and possibly from China as well. Local anal

The passengers aboard Capt. Kevin Earp's flight tonight are cold and cramped. Many of them are crabb

Top Stories: The U.S. military is about to unify its defense transportation commands into a new

Nearly a year ago, Congress slapped life into the nation's first major waterway development act in m

Having neared the end of a multimillion dollar restructuring program, the port of Genoa is about to

Although the Australian National Line has posted a record profit, the government-owned shipping oper

Navistar Says Deadline With UAW ExtendedOfficials of Navistar International Corp. said the c

A membership vote this evening in Cincinnati on a bylaw change could turn into a serious confrontati

1038.5 (Sept. 25) Previous day - 1033.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Red Star Express Lines Inc. is aiming at shorter-haul traffic to offset new competition from nationa

Computer users are getting yet more electronic power and computer manufacturers a battleground with

Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd., a trading house and financial services group, reported that its inte

AIR CARGO U.S. demand for fresh fish that go from sea to supper in a matter of hours has exp

The long-term outlook for the dollar remains bearish, despite a slight firming in the U.S. currency

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

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

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Alcoa Chemie GmbH has announced the closing of its alumina refinery at the company's alumina chemica

Under pressure from the U.S. government, South Korea has decided to reduce tariffs on 132 more items

The U.S. Department of Agriculture found a new violation of pesticide residue levels in a shipment o