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China signed seven oil contracts with groups formed by 14 international oil companies in the second

The Navy, still fascinated by nature's answer to underwater design, is spending millions of dollars

KEEPING THEIR FINGERS CROSSED: Most of the Jacksonville Port Authority's attention is focused these

Eastern Replaces Pair To Stem CancellationsEastern Airlines announced it is replacing two ma

Canadian National Railways said second quarter profit rose to C$59.9 million (US$43.1 million) from

Fruehauf Board Weighs Competing BidsA special committee of Fruehauf Corp.'s board of directo

Brazil is moving cautiously to adjust overloaded industrial capacity to booming demand, slowly lower

Agreement appears to be nearing in the high-stakes struggle over California's decades-old unitary me

Twenty-four insurers told the California Insurance Department that they will begin, or will continue

As Hurricane Charlie churned up the Eastern Seaboard Monday, Narragansett Electric Co. officials fel

A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would ban the selling or trading of free pharmaceut

Stocks declined Tuesday amid concern about weak corporate profits following the Commerce Department'

Steel production rose to 1.246 million tons in the week ended Aug. 16, an increase of 2.8 percent fr

Tugboats extinguished a blaze aboard a Norwegian-owned supertanker in one of the biggest marine salv

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

U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, despite their incredible size, are becoming adept at a form of magic.

Duke Power Co.'s Catawba Nuclear Station unit began full-service operation Tuesday. The 1,14

A Federal Maritime Commission investigation into practices of a single ocean carrier rate conference

Researchers found ground areas with significantly strong radioactivity" throughout Poland, caused by

The California Highway Patrol said it found more than 1,000 safety violations when it checked 452 tr

President Reagan's decision to build a $2.8 billion replacement shuttle for Challenger will mean at

The Coast Guard refused to let two of the Navy's Military Sealift Command pre-positioning ships ente

U.S. Department of Agriculture officials are not surprised by the U.S.S.R.'s failure so far to buy w

Every industry has its quota of forecasters and Cassandras and finger-on-the- pul se-of-the-business

A first-year gain of $11 billion in the tax reform bill might provide Congress the excuse it needs t

Ask random outsiders about the background of the top executive at this city's largest company and th

A judge upheld a court order freezing US$25 million in Libyan assets obtained by two Italian compani

GENERAL NEWSA first-year revenue gain in the tax reform bill might give Congress an excuse t

General Signal Sells S. African OperationsSTAMFORD, Conn. - General Signal Corp. said it sol

Continued deterioration in business investment and in the U.S. trade performance over the last three

Lowe Tapped For Top PostAt CanadairDonald C. Lowe will become Canadair's president a

The Shipping Chamber of Greece, the Greek government's principal advisory agency on marine affairs,

Major service expansions by United Airlines and Alaska Airlines are forcing the Port of Seattle to s

Matson Navigation Co. Inc. said it believes grounds are lacking for the Federal Maritime Commission

The boat having engine trouble? Need a place to wait out the doldrums? Someone to talk to? Money? Ne

Texaco Refining Raises Several Crude PostingsTexaco Refining and Marketing Co. raised the po

Air Canada started weekly trans-Pacific cargo charter flights to Hong Kong. The new service,

Mobil Oil Increases West Texas PostingsFAIRFAX, VA. - Mobil Oil Corp. raised the posted pric

Hawker Siddeley Buys Challenger Fuse Unit LONDON - Hawker Siddeley Group PLC, a British engi

The United States is intensifying its pressure on Japan to open public works projects to foreign sup