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1st Session 89th Congress action activities adopting the metric American Institute American Metric American Metrological Society anti-metric arguments Barnard Britain British Bureau of Standards campaign Chairman Committee on Coinage compulsory Congressional customary system debate decimal system enacted English system established fact favor Frederick Halsey Government Hallock and Wade Halsey Halsey's hearings House Committee House of Representatives Ibid industrial Institute of Weights Institute's issue John Quincy Adams letter manufacturers Mechanical Engineers ment meter metric adoption metric advocates Metric Association Metric Fallacy metric legislation metric question Metric Standardization metric system National Bureau official opinion opponents opposition organization pound President pro-metric propaganda proposed pyramidology question of metric recommendations reform resolution Samuel Dale Science scientific secure Senate Shafroth Southard standard of weights Stratton system of weights tion U.S. Congress uniformity Washington weights and mea weights and measures World Trade Club York
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Страница 5 - Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Страница 116 - The custody of the standards; the comparison of the standards used in scientific investigations, engineering, manufacturing, commerce, and educational institutions with the standards adopted or recognized by the Government...
Страница 14 - The United States in congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states..
Страница 268 - They are necessary to every occupation of human industry; to the distribution and security of every species of property; to every transaction of trade and commerce; to the labors of the husbandman; to the ingenuity of the artificer; to the studies of the philosopher; to the researches of the antiquarian, to the navigation of the mariner, and the marches of the soldier; to all the exchanges of peace, and all the operations of war.
Страница 99 - In view of these facts, and the absence of any material normal standards of customary weights and measures, the Office of Weights and Measures, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, will in the future regard the International Prototype Metre and Kilogramme as fundamental standards, and the customary units — the yard and the pound — will be derived therefrom in accordance with the Act of July 28, 1866.
Страница 5 - Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin ? 10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Страница 268 - ... mariner and the marches of the soldier, to all the exchanges of peace and all the operations of war. The knowledge of them, as in established use. is among the first elements of education, and is often learned by those who learn nothing else, not even to read and write. This knowledge is riveted in the memory by the habitual application of it to the employments of men throughout life.
Страница 268 - Weights and measures may be ranked among the necessaries of life, to every individual of human society. They enter into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. They are necessary to every occupation of human industry...
Страница 5 - A just weight and balance are the LORD'S : all the weights of the bag are his work.
Страница 239 - Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring) , That it is the sense of the Congress that the following Code of Ethics should be adhered to by all Government employees, including officeholders: CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE Any person in Government service should : 1.