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The 66th British Motor Show opens in Birmingham today with a near-record 500 exhibitors showing thei

GENERAL NEWS Philip Morris will sell Seven-Up to a Dallas company. Page 2AThe board of Gel

A Michigan company has patented a process it hopes could generate electricity eventually through con

The Brazilian government, angry about a meat shortage that has lasted several months, seized 2,000 h

The wife of a controversial Houston stevedoring executive claims the Port of Houston Authority is pu

The directors of Sea Containers Ltd. decided to suspend payment on dividends on the company's common

The Air Force has ordered an unusual second review of an apparently flawedfinancial study th

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

South Pacific Trip WARSAW, Poland - Poland's foreign minister, Marian Orzechowski, is to pay

American Isuzu Motors Corp. and its joint venture partner, Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., apparently ha

The financial disasters experienced by the shipping industry over the past decade - "the industry's

A new $1.4 million study, the largest of its kind ever conducted in the United States, will attempt

Wilhelmsen Offshore Services has sold eight supply vessels to Sverre Farstad of Aalesund, Norway. Th

If this is October, then the Georgia Ports Authority and the state's legislative delegation must be

Some of the worst accidents in the trucking industry take place when the driver tries to get out of

For the week ended Sept. 27, 1986, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads eq

After years of disappointments and several false starts, oil exploration in the East African state o

Despite the weak world oil market, exploration activity in the West African state of Ghana is poised

Japanese officials involved with the multimillion-dollar Chubu International Airport planned for con

The European Community made formal to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade its complaint again

Several U.S. companies, perhaps five or 10, soon may agree with the Soviet Union to participate in j

FCCI Coal loaded just over 106,800 metric tons of coking coal for Japanese steel mills at Newport Ne

The following table lists the spot coal contracts signed between the Tennessee Valley Authority and

FAA Suspends License Of California PilotSANTA ANA, Calif. - A pilot who entered restricted a

An airline that started out transporting meat and now operates charter flights to Disneyworld hopes

Machinists nationwide approved by an 86 percent margin a new three-year contract with Boeing Co., ev

Flexilink, the consortium of companies opposed to the construction of a cross-Chan nel tunnel betwee

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was moving slowly toward an agreement to extend it

Thai Minister in Japan TOKYO - Thai Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila met with Prime Ministe

Indian parties entering into foreign collaborations for transfer of technology will have to submit t

Despite complaints from some lawmakers and businessmen about Japanese trade practices, Asia's most h

Hercules Inc. announced that it has sold its 49 percent interest in Teijin- Hercules Chemical Co., a

There will be "an explosion" of farm bankruptcy filings once farmers and their lawyers realize the a

The nation's major retailers posted modest sales gains for September compared with a year ago.

Gov. George Deukmejian's insurance commissioner says the state will require insurance firms to justi

OCTOBER 14 - Free Trade and International Insurance, symposium - Wall Street Club, New York

Grain traffic at Thunder Bay, Canada's biggest cereals port, resumed late Thurs day afternoon after

GENERAL NEWSSuperfund will likely determine if Congress will adjourn for the year next week

U.S. automakers scheduled the assembly of 160,339 cars in domestic factories this week, Ward's Autom

A cooperative agreement between Norwegian Ship Management A/S and V-ships of Monaco started operatin