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...House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures last week had its day on the legislative calendar and presented one bill, a bill to continue the life of the National Screw Thread Commission. But it did not report the Britten metric standards bill, although hearings on the bill were begun Feb. 1. Congressman Fred Albert Britten is from Chicago. He is prominent in the House on naval affairs and it was he who was given credit for bringing the next Army-Navy foot ball game to his city. Incidentally his business is building construction, and that accounts for his introducing...
...World-Quart" bill is a metric system bill. It proposes to make standard throughout the U. S. the metre (world yard), the litre (world quart) and the one-half kilo gram (world pound). The world yard and world pound are about 10% greater than our present measures, and the world quart about 5% greater than our present quart. The use of these measures would be made obligatory in merchandising (not in manufacturing...
There are just two outstanding reasons for making these changes: 1) The metric standards conform to the decimal system (the metre is 100 centimetres and 10 decimetres; and 1,000 metres are a kilometre or "world mile") so that one can be changed into the other by simply moving a decimal instead instead of going through arithmetical processes each time, the same advantage that our decimal coinage system has over the English system of pounds, shillings and pence. 2) The metric standards are used in every country in the world except the British Commonwealth and the U. S., are already...
Since 1866, metric weights and measures have been legal in the U. S. and indeed our yard is officially defined as 3,600/3,937ths of a metre. They are used in the Philippines, in medicine, chemistry, in the jewelry and optical industries...
...means! Investments in the new Russia are absolutely sound, because they are guaranteed by our Civil Code. The Harriman interests know this, and have obtained great manganese concessions in Georgia.* The production of their Georgian Manganese Co. was 63,000 metric tons last month...