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At a meeting of the Associated Engineers, with Columbia Section in charge, a discussion of the metric system was led by-Mr. F. A. Ross. While the majority of the engineers present favored resolutions seeking compulsory adoption and use of the system at the end of 1924 it was believed the engineers present should not undertake to speak for the entire membership and upon suggestion of Mr. J. B. Fisken the resolutions were laid over to be acted upon at a later meeting. The resolutions are as follows: WHEREAS the Great War has drawn the United States into a permanent and close relationship with the other nations of the world and opened the way to an unlimited foreign trade; and WHEREAS more than-70 per cent. of all nations have discarded their arbitrary standards of weights and measures and have made the use of the decimal, or metric, system obligatory; and WHEREAS the United States still clings to an antiquated, complex, cumbersome, and wholly illogical system of weights and measures, consisting of a duodecimal and fractional arrangement of arbitrary units, instead of definitely determined and correlated units following the decimal system; and

Jan 8, 1919

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Jan 1, 1907

By H. Sadek

The accompanying table shows the available data pcrtaining to the Hurghada field, the major oil and gas field in Egypt. Operations in Abu Durba, a small field, amounted to almost nothing in 1935.

Jan 1, 1936

By H. Sadek

The accompanying table shows the available data pcrtaining to the Hurghada field, the major oil and gas field in Egypt. Operations in Abu Durba, a small field, amounted to almost nothing in 1935.

Jan 1, 1936

PRESIDENT ROBERT E. TALLY, JEROME, ARIZ. PAST PRESIDENTS FREDERICK W. BRADLEY, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. WILLIAM H. BASSETT, WATERBURY, CONN. TREASURER KARL EILERS, NEW YORK, N. Y.

Jan 1, 1923

PRESIDENT Mrs Oliver Bowles 5000 Massachusetts Ave N W Washington 16, D. C FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Mrs David Eugene Park 350 East 57th Street New York 22, N Y. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT Mrs A B. Kinzel 320 Park Avenue New York 22. N. Y

Jan 1, 1952

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Jan 1, 1907

The plans involve about ten technical sessions, a day spent in Cripple Creek and in Pueblo, where there will he optional visits devoted to steel, non-ferrous metals, etc.; half-a-day each to mills in Colorado Springs district and an auto trip to the top of Pike's Peak. Finally, a day at Leadville devoted to visits, including the molybdenum works.

Jan 4, 1918

Jan 1, 1935

Meeting of Nov. 21, 1913.-The President reported the appointment of the officers and members of the Committee on Non-Metallic Minerals, published elsewhere in this Bulletin. The President appointed the Executive Committee of the New York Section as a local .committee to have charge of the Annual Meeting of the Institute in February, 1914, with power to add to their numbers. It was voted that the Chairman of each Technical Committee, be made ex officio a member of the Committee on Papers and Publications. At the request of the Secretary, Burr A. Robinson was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Institute. E. Gybbon Spilsbury was nominated as representative of the Institute on the John Fritz Medal Board of Award. It was voted that the next summer meeting of the Institute be held in Salt Lake City in August, 1914, with power to the Executive Committee to fix the exact date. Substantial reduction was made in the price of the back Transactions of the Institute in accordance with the notice published on p. i of this Bulletin.. The By-Laws of the Montana Local Section were approved. The printing contract for the year 1914 was made with the Maple Press. Thirty-eight Members, one Associate and three Junior Members were elected.

Jan 12, 1913