Date:  Thu, 28 Sep 1995 15:43:22 -0500

From:  Molly Dickmeyer <dickmeye[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]JBLSMTP.PHL.LRPUB.COM>

Subject: metrification -Reply



David:



like I needed something else to blame Reagan for.



Molly

dickmeye[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]phl.lrpub.com





>>> David Bergdahl <bergdahl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU> 9/28/95, 02:10pm

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  Date: 28-Sep-1995 03:07pm EST



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  From: David Bergdahl               Dept: English

     BERGDAHL                 Tel No: (614)

593-2783



Subject: metrification





Am I the only one to remember that metrification was well under way

in the U.S.

(with some interstate hwys posting speed limits and distances

metrically) until

Reagan was elected in 1980 and stopped the conversion process by--as

they say--defunding it?



BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

David Bergdahl Ohio University/Athens

"Where Appalachia meets the Midwest"







Received: 28-Sep-1995 03:10pm