The Metric Fallacy: An Investigation of the Claims Made for the Metric System and Especially of the Claim that Its Adoption is Necessary in the Interest of Export Trade"Chapters IX, XVIII, XXIII and XXIV are by ... Samuel S. Dale."--Preface. |
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Page 140 - or association who shall use, or offer and attempt to use, in any industrial or commercial transaction in the sale or purchase of any commodity any other weights and measures than those of the metric system on and after July first, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of
Page 140 - 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.
Page 140 - not more than $500 or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 157 - in the face of the fact that England is beyond all question the nation whose commercial relations, both internal and. external, are the greatest in the world, and that the British system of measures is received and used, not only throughout the whole British Empire
Page 5 - and measures instead of one long established and in general use, is one of the most arduous exercises of legislative authority. There is, indeed, no difficulty in enacting and promulgating the law, but the difficulties of carrying it into execution are always great and have often proved insuperable. " The legislator . . . finishes by increasing the diversities which it was
Page 151 - WHEREAS, National legislation is proposed and is being vigorously urged to substitute the Metric System for our present standards of "weights and measures, and WHEREAS, In the language of the " British Committee on Commercial and Industrial Policy After the War,
Page 154 - to the compulsory adoption of the Metric System of Weights and Measures in all departments of the Government, and thence into the entire country. It is believed that such meddling paternalism needs only to
Page 145 - The substitution of an entire new system of weights and measures, instead of one long established and in general use, is one of the most arduous exercises of legislative authority. There is indeed no difficulty in enacting and promulgating the law; but the difficulties of carrying it into execution are always great, and have often proved insuperable. The legislator . . . finishes by increasing the diversities which it was
Page 114 - 1728 cubic inches, 1 cubic foot; 27 cubic feet, 1 cubic yard; 16 ounces,
Page 71 - questionnaire contains a single item to substantiate the theory advanced by Dr. Wells. No proof of it has ever been offered; it is clearly untenable and must be dismissed. The eighth theory is that we will use metric equivalents for English sizes, or, as the metric party