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Inching Toward The Metric System
AP science writer notes the U S may adopt metric units soon with meters liters and grams replacing yards pounds quarts and inches Bills in Congress seek to speed the switch as U S joins Britain Australia Canada Japan and others using metric measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. G. McDaniel
United States
Congress
Great Britain
Australia
Canada
Japan
Trinidad
Malawi
Ghana
Muscat
Oman
Sierra Leone
Tonga
Gambila
Burma
Barbados
Jamaica
Liberia
Nauru
Yemen
Lewis M. Branscomb
National Bureau of Standards
Museum of Science and Industry
Chicago
Ford
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Journal of the American Medical Association
France
John Quincy Adams
England