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The fastest growth area in the nation's economy in recent years has been the service sector but stat

The final decade of British colonial rule in Hong Kong commenced last month with little fanfare, alt

A British company has designed a vacuum cleaner specifically for disposal of toxic dusts such as asb

Yugoslavia's largest port of Rijeka was swamped with cargo Monday as a strike of about 5,300 employe

Continental Illinois Corp. named Thomas C. Theobald, 50, currently vice chairman of Citicorp, to rep

New England Electric Posts Hike in EarningsWESTBOROUGH, Mass. - New England Electric System

After turning its back on foreign sales last year, a large segment of the Brazilian economy is retur

Compaq Computer Corp.'s profit more than tripled in the second quarter as revenue rose 82 percent, t

United Auto Workers Union President Owen Bieber and a General Motors Corp. vice president opened con

Aetna Life & Casualty Co. isn't going to take it anymore. Let's just say we're not out there

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

A Houston district court judge signed a judgment in favor of American National Petroleum Co. and an

Japan's Fisheries Agency is preparing to conduct research whaling for three months in the Antarctic

The U.S. Department of Agriculture officials tentatively approved the importing of up to 270,000 liv

This month, a representative of Nicolet Inc. walked into federal court in Philadelphia and filed a p

The building of a nation is not an easy job. Those are the words of Peter MacDonald. And bui

Pacific Marine Insurance Co. lost its authority to do business in Illinois following a court's findi

Massachusetts officials said they are probing electricity shortages during a heat wave last Friday,

A potential miners' strike in the first quarter of next year is prompting a Florida utility to wrap

The New Deal agency that brought electric power and telephone service to more than 90 percent of rur

Acknowledging that mistakes were made," the top staff officer of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commiss

A Kuwaiti ship has been transferred to the register of the British dependency of Gibraltar in a move

The death of Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige leaves the department's trade policy, for now, in t

The stock exchange took steps Monday to prevent back office operations of London securities firms fr

The U.S. Treasury decided tentatively to postpone the announcement of its third-quarter refunding, s

Hoechst Celanese Corp. plans a $90 million investment in a new world-scale acetaminophen facility an

The U.S. dollar traded higher at mid-day against all major foreign currencies, except the Canadian d

U.S. consumption of advanced polymer composite shapes will increase at a strong annual rate of 10 pe

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

A marine survey team hired by the U.S. Coast Guard has flown to Kuwait to determine if a Kuwaiti sup

Southern Pacific Transportation Corp. said traffic is moving smoothly along its Siskiyou Line in wes

Tendering a shipment load is a lot like asking a woman out for a date. Both hinge on favorable and t

Marine insurers are not planning any major changes to their terms of cover forferries following the

Saudi Arabia has told its major U.S. customers that their crude oil entitlement for August will be c

Amoco UK Exploration Makes North Sea FindAmoco U.K. Exploration Co. announced that it struck

Saint-Gobain, France's newly privatized manufacturer of glass and construction materials with over $

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s second-quarter net income rose 11 percent to $504 million, or $2.08

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

The airline buying binge that has propelled Boeing's jetliner sales to record heights each of the la