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* Cargill Inc., the largest U.S. agricultural firm, said it had a profit in its fiscal fourth quarter on higher earnings from corn-based sweeteners, vegetable oil, malted barley, cocoa and pork. The privately held company’s net income was $144 million, compared with a loss of $87 million a year ago.

* Following Spirit Airlines’ offer of free air travel on Sept. 11, National Airlines said it will charge $1 for seats on its flights on the anniversary of the hijack attacks on the United States. National, which flies from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and other major cities to Las Vegas, said it will donate the $1 fares to the Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation of America.

* Kaiser Permanente named Richard Cordova as president of the health system’s Southern California region, which has 3.1 million members. The position was created after Kaiser’s chairman and chief executive, George C. Halvorson, dissolved the California division and formed two separate regions. Cordova, 52, had held the top post at Kaiser’s operations in Southern California.

* U.S. Bancorp, the eighth-largest U.S. bank, said it agreed to buy State Street Corp.’s corporate trust business for $725 million in cash to expand in New England.