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From Aztec to high-tech, corn's past is a mystery and its future a challenge. The nutritious

The Massachusetts Port Authority says it completed a year-end, $5.99 millionpurchase of a fo

Resort hotel liability insurance was hard to get before the fire that claimed more than 60 lives in

Rohr Industries Inc. said it will build more than $300 million in components for McDonnell Douglas C

Orders to U.S. factories for manufactured goods soared 4.1 percent in November, the biggest increase

The dollar's value against the austral, the new Argentine currency launched with President Raul Alfo

OIL, GAS Western Oil and GasAppoints D. HendersonDoug Henderson was appointed execut

Duty-free status for goods imported under about three dozen different tariff classifications expired

Texas Names Brokers To Handle PlacementsTexas Air Corporation appointed Lloyd's of London in

The second of Hong Kong's struggling shipping groups is sailing buoyantly into the New Year after a

The Burlington Northern Railroad's short-haul intermodal Expediter service will become considerably

ICC Orders Conrail To Cancel Hauling TaxConrail has been ordered by the Interstate Commerce

January sales, one of the world's greatest merchandising events, have gotten off to a brisk start, a

M&T Chemicals Inc. announced an increase in its prices for tributyltin oxide, effective Jan. 2, 1987

Chevron Chemical Co. announced it is selling its specialty and commodity fertilizer plant at Fort Ma

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad Urged Malaysians to dedicate themselves to improving productivity to

Arkla Unit Acquires Arkansas Firm's AssetsSHREVEPORT, La. - Arkla Inc. said its Arkla Explor

Because of low world wheat prices, countries that import grain for animal feed are beginning at an i

An effort by Mexico to upgrade its beef and dairy herds has meant new sales opportunities for U.S. c

The announcement this week by officials of Douglas Aircraft Co. that production will begin soon on t

R.A.F. Group acquired Vinyl Building Products Inc., a designer and extruder of vinyl-framed windows

China's boldest experiment in Western-style financing begins soon with the re-opening of the Bank of

GENERAL NEWS There will be no one home at Capitol Hill or White House when the fiscal 1988 b

China's boldest experiment in Western-style financing begins soon with the re-opening of the Bank of

The Swedish Club has captured a big share of the international ship's hull insurance market.

The U.S. General Accounting Office says the impact of the insurance industry's new commercial genera

Salomon Bros. Inc., the New York securities firm, is revising upward its estimate of earnings per sh

January 2, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon

Britain, although a major European coal producer, remains a net importer of coal, recent figures rel

McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s newest baby, the wide-bodied MD-11, has scored its third Asian sales succe

THE OUTER LIMITS may be the next stop for economic policy. So far, policy has been traveling

Gerhard Jerry Frey, 76, comptroller for The Journal of Commerce for 27 years, died on New Year's Eve

The Reagan administration announced sharply reduced benefits for Taiwan, Brazil, Korea and Mexico un

The Department of Transportation's public counsel recommended that rights for the first dedicated sm

McDonnell Douglas Corp. will announce soon it will build an aircraft assembly plant in Macon, it was

For the week ended Dec. 13, 1986, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equ

Prices have plummeted, energy companies are consolidating, the economies in the energy belt are deva

Supplies of distillate fuel oil and gasoline stocks rose, according to the American Petroleum Insti

European wine exports have felt the punch of the tainted wine scandals that shook consumers' confide

The U.S. bankruptcy court issued a preliminary injunction against GAC Marine and levied a fine of $5