Small Business Problems in Metric Conversion: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 5 and 19 ... June 8 and 9, 1971, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 111 pages |
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ADDABBO adoption advantages agency assistance BECK BERGLAND BRANSCOMB British Standards Institution BURGER CANELLAS centimetre Chairman change to metric changeover Commerce components concerned construction industry CORMAN cost impact DARRONE Department of Defense dimensional co-ordination disadvantages draught beer dual economy effect engineering industries engineering standards equipment estimates Federal go metric imperial units inch-pound increased metric Industrial Training inventory involved KNEBEL legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS machine tools major manufacturers measurement units metric measurements metric products metric sizes metric standards metric study metric system metric units Metrication Board million Ministry of Technology operations organisations personnel planning problems procurement respondents retail ROBINSON sector SELLERS SI units Small Business Administration small business community small firms specifications Steering Committee survey technical trade associations Training Board transition period United Kingdom units of sale weights and measures
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Page A-12 - Committee was appointed jointly by the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association of British Chambers of Commerce...
Page A-191 - That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts and in all legal proceedings as establishing in terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States the equivalents of the weights and measures expressed therein in terms of the metric system...
Page A-116 - States; to study the feasibility of retaining and promoting by international use of dimensional and other engineering standards based on the customary measurement units of the United States; and to evaluate the costs and benefits of alternative courses of action which may be feasible for the United States.
Page A-191 - 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.
Page A-2 - Costa Rica Cuba Cyprus Czechoslovakia Dahomey Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Ethiopia Finland France Gabon...
Page 42 - States may be induced to undertake a thorough reformation of their whole system of measures, weights and coins, reducing every branch to the same decimal ratio already established in their coins, and thus bringing the calculation of the principal affairs of life within the arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide plain numbers, greater changes will be necessary.
Page A-110 - 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 on the United States; to appraise the desirability and practicability of increasing the use of metric weights and measures in the United States; to...
Page 58 - aid, counsel, assist and protect... the Interests of small business concerns...
Page A-110 - States; (5) permit appropriate participation by representatives of United States industry, science, engineering, and labor, and their associations, in the planning and conduct of the program authorized by the first section of this Act, and in the evaluation of the information secured under such program; and (6) consult and cooperate with other government agencies, Federal, State, and local, and, to the extent practicable, with foreign governments and international organizations. SEC.
Page 58 - ... to license and regulate small business investment companies ; to make loans to small business investment companies; to make loans to State and local development companies...