How Big Is an Inch?
A Yankee Republican liberal, SENATOR RALPH E. FLANDERScarried both labor’s and industry’s endorsement when he ran as Senator from Vermont. He has been a designer and inventor of machine tools. For thirteen years he was President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and in 1944 he received the American Engineering Council’s Hoover Medal for outstanding public service. Throughout his career, he has maintained that the standards of American industry should be initiated by industry itself, not imposed on industry by government, and in this trenchant article he explains why.