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If ever a railroad emulated the Little Engine That Could, it would have to be Florida East Coast Rai

Chicago Mercantile Exchange President William J. Brodsky announced that the CME plans to trade a fut

An invasion of grasshoppers and locusts threatens to spread to new areas of central and southern Af

The House Agriculture Committee Friday approved a bill aimed at boosting grain quality and restricti

A Japanese shipping line's terminal is expected to become San Francisco Bay's first site for loading

Financial assistance and direction from a major South Korean bank are expected to help the Korea Shi

The Tung Shipping Group signed a US$277 million ship financing deal with a syndicate of banks as a p

Nigeria Formally Seeks Debt ReschedulingNigeria formally proposed a rescheduling of its debt

Spanish Line Names Omnium Gulf AgentOmnium Agencies (Louisiana) Inc. was appointed Eastern G

Hygeia Sciences Inc. of Newton, Mass., and Miles Laboratories Inc. of Elkhart, Ind., a subsidiary of

BP Polymers To ExpandUS BusinessesBP Performance Polymers Inc. announced plans to ex

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Celanese Hikes Acrylic Acid Prices Celanese Chemical Co. Inc. announced it will increase the

Rancho Seco Start-up Delayed 2 More MonthsThe proposed start-up time for the Rancho Seco nuc

The Dow Chemical Co. announced that it reached an agreement with Ethyl Corp. for the sale of Dow's b

A preview was held for Hong Kong's first nuclear technology exhibition in what is seen as an attempt

Egypt is in the market for 400,000 to 500,000 tons of coking coal for 1987, a trader said, and vendo

A Kentucky utility returned to the spot coal market and the Tennessee Valley Authority ordered long-

Union Texas Petroleum, which recently completed a well in the Badin area of southeast Pakistan, conf

Union Carbide Agricultural Products Co. Inc. announced that the results of an independent study on t

After failing to attract adequate foreign investment to develop its huge coal deposits, China hopes

Petroleum futures closed mostly higher on the New York Mercantile Exchange after trading quietly in

Some analysts fear that higher interest rates are ahead because of reports showing strong retail sal

A mid-stream bulk-cargo handling facility will be developed in the Mississippi River below New Orlea

Gorbachev Gives Hints Of Journey to JapanMikhail Gorbachev, Soviet premier, indicated in a m

Steel shipping volume is on the increase, but profit margins are falling, and experts of the $20 bil

The convulsions that rocked the financial markets in recent days have shaken the confidence of large

A growing number of developing countries are turning to private enterprise to help spur their econom

Economic Reports WASHINGTON - The government reports business inventories for July today. In

TOP STORIES: The U.S. coal industry needs greater productivity and relief from environmental

General Motors Corp., accelerating its efforts to slash its white-collar labor force, wants 5 percen

The tentative contract settlement between the railroad industry and the Brotherhood Railway Carmen m

Foreign banks operating in the United States are lobbying to remove a tax reform bill proposal that

Lumber production, orders and shipments all decreased in 12 Western states in the week ended Sept. 6

The White House threatened to veto legislation permitting the sale of Conrail if it contains major c

Japan's five biggest steel companies said they will skip the usual mid-term dividend payments for th

Gen. Casey Nominated To Head Space DivisionNORTON AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Maj. Gen. Aloysiu

When the earthquake last year wiped out Mexico's most important hospitals, it also brought down a da

Japan's five biggest steel companies said they will skip the usual mid-term dividend payments for th

Last week's abruptly terminated contract talks between the International Longshoremen's Association