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Ever since the engines on a British jet blew up two years ago and killed 55 people, a South Florida

Application of free market techniques could help relieve the "national traffic jam" that has gripped

Halley's comet is made partly out of plastic, a scientist has discovered, and a lot of other objects

An almost immediate payoff will result from Consolidated Freightways, Inc.'s adoption of a new data

A key witness against Teamsters President Jackie Presser has recanted his testimony, blaming medicat

Schlumberger Ltd. signed a definitive agreement for the purchase by National Semiconductor Corp., Sa

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

Plans for the restructuring of Saudi Arabia's oil industry and the creation of a single national oil

Accountants Upgrade Opinion of L.B. FosterL.B. Foster Co. said its independent accountants h

In the aftermath of Canada's five-day national railroad strike, both of that nation's railroads were

Dissident Teamsters may file a lawsuit contesting the ratification of the union's new labor contract

A federal bankruptcy court has taken most of the legal fetters off the Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., free

Insurance companies are pushing a watered-down rate control bill in an effort to derail stronger leg

In his 10 months as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Charles J. Pilliod Jr. has kept a prudently low p

Sales of new single-family homes in the United States increased 0.5 percent in July to a seasonally

Genentech Heart Drug Approved in S. KoreaSOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Genentech Inc. announ

American builders will lose $220 million in contracts for a hydroelectric dam in south China because

Florida's point man for agriculture has promised to put pressure on his state's delegation to Congre

Southern Co.'s electric power sales during July were higher than any other single month in its histo

Argonne National Laboratory is preparing coal samples to go. The laboratory is sealing and s

Passenger Traffic Up On N. Atlantic RoutesPassenger traffic across North Atlantic air routes

J.P. Industries Buys Assets of AquariusANN ARBOR, Mich. - J.P. Industries announced it has p

Prime Minister Wilfried Martens was quoted as saying Monday he does not reject sending Belgian mines

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

Italy's first computerized customs clearance system will begin online operations this month in the G

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has indefinitely shut down Pier 40 in lower Manhattan

The new superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy plans no change in the academy's mission

Security Pacific Buys 30 percent of Burn Fry Corp.NEW YORK - Security Pacific Corp. is buyin

AUTOMATED CARRIERS. On or about Sept. 5, 1987, Maersk Line will become the third carrier in the Los

The National Coal Association contends that Central Maine Power Co. should be denied a permit to con

Critics charge that a planned change in the definition of air carrier operations by the Federal Avia

A revised credit agreement will allow Leif Hoegh & Co. to retain ownership of six ships that the Nor

If the pharmaceutical industry won't come to the mainland, then the mainland must come to the pharma

New York State Environmental Conservation Commissioner Thomas C. Jorling has urged the federal Envir

The Greek government has been accused of neglecting the country's shipping industry and failing to e

Talk of a possible visit by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to Silicon Valley brings memories of the

The Military Sealift Command says it's cheaper to man five cable-laying ships with civil servants th

An article on Massachusetts auto rates Aug. 27 misidentified a spokesperson's employer.Joseph DiGiov

The Federal Home Loan Bank Board voted to move forward with plans to bring $10.8 billion into the in

Harry Rutstein tried for seven years to sell millimeter wave devices to China, but could not do so b