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...their recipes to fit metric units; gas meters, water meters, tape measures, yardsticks would all have to be altered or replaced; measuring machines on counters would have to be reconstructed, new machinery devised for folding goods by meter instead of the yard; shirts and collars would have to be renamed???the 16-inch collar becoming 405 millimeters; the 7 3/8 hat, 187 millimeters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: World Quart | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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