Conversion to metric system: Hearing, Eighty-ninth Congress, first session. July 14, 1965 |
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| Title | Conversion to metric system: Hearing, Eighty-ninth Congress, first session. July 14, 1965 |
| Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce |
| Publisher | U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | Aug 8, 2006 |
| Length | 68 pages |
| Subjects | › Metric system Science / Metric System Weights and measures |
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