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Preview Travel Inc., a company based in San Francisco that provides Internet travel services for leisure and small-business travelers, plans to sell 2.5 million common shares in an initial public offering, raising as much as $24.7 million after expenses, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. . . . New York-based Chase Manhattan Corp. said it plans to start offering property and casualty insurance to its commercial customers through an alliance with USI Holdings Corp., an insurance broker based in San Francisco.