The Metric System: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 1 and the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U. S. House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on H. R. 269 and H. R. 2049. June 28, 29, and July 21, 1961, Том 2United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee No. 1 U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 74 страница |
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Страница 69 - 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.
Страница 69 - The Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures of the House of Representatives is again considering the subject of the adoption of the metric system of weights and measures as the legal system of the United States — with a view of presenting a report to Congress upon this subject.
Страница 2 - Standards shall conduct a program of investigation, research, and survey to determine the practicability of the adoption by the United States of the metric system of weights and measures.
Страница 6 - The meter is the length equal to 1 650 763.73 wavelengths in vacuum of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the levels 2p10 and 5d5 of the krypton-86 atom.
Страница 63 - Commerce is hereby authorized to conduct a program of investigation, research, and survey to determine the impact of increasing worldwide use of the metric system...
Страница 49 - Teachers of mathematics will agree that fully 25 percent of a child's time and the teacher's as well, could be saved in arithmetic courses if the simple interrelated metric decimal units were substituted for the English system of measurement.
Страница 60 - In this most important contest, it seems inconceivable that we would allow ourselves to be hampered by a situation which has hurt us in the past, is hurting us today, and will continue to hurt us in the future. But the fact is that the United States is out of step with most of the world in an immensely significant way : We measure things differently. "This at first may seem unimportant. But our clumsy system of measuring with inches, quarts, miles, and pounds actually could hobble our international...
Страница 1 - THE USE OF THE METRIC SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Be it enacted by the Senate and...
Страница 46 - ... the bill. An early effective date would undoubtedly work a severe hardship on the adult population not familiar with the metric system, and it would make obsolete a prohibitive amount of every-day items of weights and measures. A solution would appear to be a bill to make the metric system the only official system...
Страница 1 - A bill to provide that the Secretary of Commerce shall conduct a study to determine the practicability and desirability of the adoption by the United States of the metric system of weights and measures.