NBS Special PublicationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - Weights and measures |
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... Service plans to convert its civil engineering activities to metric by 1982 for the resultant time and cost savings . A number of respondents either already have policies for or plan to move in the direction of increased use of metric ...
... Service plans to convert its civil engineering activities to metric by 1982 for the resultant time and cost savings . A number of respondents either already have policies for or plan to move in the direction of increased use of metric ...
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... Service and the Foreign Agricultural Service . In the Environmental Science Services Administration ( now incorporated in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , NOAA ) , the Na- tional Environmental Satellite Center is ...
... Service and the Foreign Agricultural Service . In the Environmental Science Services Administration ( now incorporated in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , NOAA ) , the Na- tional Environmental Satellite Center is ...
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... Services Adminis- tration , the Letter Mail Equipment Branch in the U.S. Postal Service , and the Office of Construction in the Veterans Administration . The next most noteworthy disadvantage mentioned was lack of comparability of data ...
... Services Adminis- tration , the Letter Mail Equipment Branch in the U.S. Postal Service , and the Office of Construction in the Veterans Administration . The next most noteworthy disadvantage mentioned was lack of comparability of data ...
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... Service , involving extra workloads for air traffic controllers and flight personnel and demands on air- ground communications time . The Environmental Data Service ( in the En- vironmental Science Services Administration ) would have a ...
... Service , involving extra workloads for air traffic controllers and flight personnel and demands on air- ground communications time . The Environmental Data Service ( in the En- vironmental Science Services Administration ) would have a ...
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... Service ( in conservation operations , and watershed planning and improvements ) , the Agricultural Research Service ( data conversion , training , temporary inefficiency ) , and the Extension Ser- vice ( adult and youth education ) ...
... Service ( in conservation operations , and watershed planning and improvements ) , the Agricultural Research Service ( data conversion , training , temporary inefficiency ) , and the Extension Ser- vice ( adult and youth education ) ...
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activities adaptation Administration adoption of metric agencies annual cost increase Anticipated Impact Area of National Assumption II Bureau of Standards Center changeover Commerce conversion cost impacts customary system customary units dards Department Development disadvantages Division dual dimensioning equipment estimates expects export Federal Federal Aviation Administration foreign Government Health Service Impacts of Metrication increasing metric usage increasing worldwide indicate industry Internal Operations Laboratory manufacturers measurement system measuring devices ment meter metric engineering standards metric measurement units metric system metric units Metric-Based Engineering Standards National Bureau National Responsibility Nationally Planned Program package Packaging and Labeling percent post-transition period Present Metric Usage problems program to increase questionnaire Research respondents anticipate safety scales specifications stan Statistics Survey technical Technology tion tional trade transition period transportation U.S. customary U.S. customary units U.S. Metric Study U.S. Postal Service units and engineering units of measurement weights and measures worldwide and domestic
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Page 78 - Act, it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the Weights and Measures of the Metric System...
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Page 77 - It is hereby declared that it is the express intent of Congress by this section to supersede any and all laws of the States or political subdivisions thereof insofar as they may now or hereafter provide for advances in time or changeover dates different from those specified in this section.
Page 76 - Net contents 6 fl. oz." (k) On packages containing 4 pounds or 1 gallon or more and labeled in terms of weight or fluid measure, the declaration shall be expressed in pounds for weight units with any remainder in terms of ounces or common or decimal...
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