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Coal. Production in 1913, 1,515,750 metric tons; in 1923, 951,103 metric tons, or 62% of the pre-War figure...
...present rate of U. S. coal consumption of 586,000,000 metric tons a year is maintained the coal resources of the United States will last this country another 6,033 years. (A metric ton weighs 2,204,662 pounds...
According to statistics presented by the Coal Trade Journal, Govern-ment estimates give the United States 3,535,303,000,000 metric tons of lignite, sub-bituminous, bituminous, semi-bituminous, anthracite and semi-anthracite to draw...
...United States government has already taken steps for the adoption of the metric system, and now conducts all surveys and map work by it. The familiar "Buffalo Nickel" has the standard weight of five grams. The foot and the "lb." are, by law, expressed as fractions of the meter and kilogram. And beyond this, in the field of electrical engineering, all measurements are based on the "centimeter, gram, second" system; while many prominent manufacturing concerns have already adopted it. Only the force of inertia always present in the "great American public" has prevented its general acceptance...
...difficulty. In British Columbia with the change from left to right it has been found necessary to set up new sign-posts over three thousand miles of road, and the introduction of the meter to America would cause a great many minor changes.--but like Arabic numerals, the metric system is sure to be universally accepted sooner or later...