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The Montauk Lighthouse has gone modern. The three Coast Guard officials who used to man the

One of France's largest private shipping companies, Societe Navale et Commercial Del mas-Vieljeux, o

Armour Pharmaceutical Co. has developed a process for purifying proteins extracted from human blood

National Distillers Unit To Boost PE CapacityJohn Hoyt Stookey, chairman, National Distiller

Emery Air Freight Corp. launched a $306 million acquisition offer Wednesday for troubled rival Purol

DC-10 Owners Told To Check For CracksLONG BEACH, Calif. - Douglas Aircraft Co. is warning ai

Citadel OKs Payment Over Aborted TakeoverGLENDALE, Calif. - Thrift holding company Citadel H

Conference Moves To New NY AddressThe U.S.-South and East Africa Conference and the East Afr

U.S. workers compensation insurers can throw away the crutches this year. Operations for the

In a move that could ease U.S.-Japan trade tensions, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said Wedne

When Samuel A. Armacost was forced to resign in October as chief executive of BankAmerica Corp., he

A decade of free-market policies initiated by Chicago-trained economists and the prospect of democra

Deak International moved Wednesday into wholesale trading of precious and nonferrous metals in both

Egyptian Crude Prices To Hold Through AprilEgypt's crude oil prices are to remain unchanged

In the late 1970s, Frank Overlaet had an idea: a select, worldwide association of reputable ship age

Dow Sells Coal Mining Chemicals Unit to BetzTREVOSE, Pa. - Betz Laboratories Inc. announced

The European Community Commission said Wednesday it adopted a rapid information exchange plan for nu

An aerial collision between a jet airliner and a fish dropped by an eagle delayed an Alaska Airlines

As Venezuelan officials tell it, it's almost incidental that this nation has become the biggest oil

The prime rate increase initiated by Citicorp on Tuesday focused attention on an economic barometer

South Korea Will Free Chip Import MarketSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea will end all restri

Union members rallied on Capitol Hill in favor of legislation to give retirees' health benefits pref

India's state-owned automaker, Maruti Udyog Ltd., on Tuesday signed its first export contract, a bar

Burgundy, a rich wine-growing region in the central-western part of France, is striving to develop i

Commercial banks warned they can't take a lead financing role in developing countries and urged indu

Stock prices rose on a late round of buying in the blue chips Wednesday, despite news of the first i

April 1, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The new executive director of the Port Everglades Authority evidently feels comfortable in his posit

Uhde GmbH of Dortmund, West Germany, was awarded a contract to supply a nitric acid plant on a turnk

Delta Air Lines filed incorporation papers to complete its $860 million merger with Western Airlines

Belgium's largest insurance company is expected to announce a joint venture with France's leading pr

Portland waterfront workers got a double economic shot in the arm Tuesday. Sen. Mark Hatfiel

The rise of the yen, engineered to help ease foreign trade frictions, is confronting Japan with a pa

The labels on non-alcoholic beverages should be required to say the drinks actually may contain some

The U.S. dollar rose Wednesday as major U.S. banks raised their prime rate to 7.75 percent from 7.5

The Senate appeared to be moving toward overriding President Reagan's veto of an $88 billion highway

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

Farmers plan to cut back sharply on corn plantings this spring, reflecting overloaded world granarie

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is considering extending the number of listed Eurodollar futures con

A man and his dog were killed when a Metro North train hit the man's truck at an unprotected crossin