NBS Special Publication, Masalah 345,Bagian 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 |
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Halaman 43 - That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the Metric System ; and no contract, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the Metric System.
Halaman vi - 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...
Halaman 50 - Conversion to the Metric System The National Education Association believes that a carefully planned effort to convert to the metric system is essential to the future of American industrial and technological development and to the evolution of effective world communication.
Halaman 16 - January, nineteen hundred and five, all the Departments of the Government of the United States, in the transaction of all business requiring the use of weight and measurement, except in completing the survey of public lands, shall employ and use only the weights and measures of the metric system ; and...
Halaman iii - That immediate steps be taken by the Congress to foster US participation in international standards activities ; That in order to encourage efficiency and minimize the overall costs to society, the general rule should be that any changeover costs shall "lie where they fall" ; That the Congress, after deciding on a plan for the nation, establish a target date ten years ahead, by which time the US will have become predominantly, though not exclusively, metric; That there be a firm government commitment...
Halaman 117 - International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America National Organization Masters, Mates, and Pilots of America National Marine Engineers...
Halaman 87 - The cost and inconvenience of a change to metric will be substantial, even if it is done carefully by plan. But the analysis of benefits and costs made in this chapter confirms the intuitive judgment of US business and industry that increasing the use of the metric system is in the best interests of the country and that this should be done through a coordinated national program.
Halaman vi - ... 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. 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.
Halaman vi - They enter into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. 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 exchanges of peace, and all the operations...