Former President Gerald Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act 50 years ago. However, he did not make metric adoption mandatory, and the efforts fell flat. For a look at where metric measurements have ...

December 23, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the Metric Conversion Act, designed to bring US weights and measures in line with the rest of the world. The United States is one of the last holdouts ...

Slate Property Group and Breaking Ground are teaming up on a $500 million affordable housing project in Midtown Manhattan. The joint venture acquired the vacant Stewart Hotel for $255 million and ...

Korean Air was ordered to revise its mileage conversion program with Asiana Airlines by supplementing a mileage redemption program for in-flight seats, the nation’s antitrust watchdog said Monday. The ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the city is extending a program that aims to revitalize the downtown by converting vacant office buildings into housing projects for another 12 months. The city’s office ...

Google’s new “Original Conversion Value” metric gives advertisers long-needed clarity by revealing the true, unadjusted revenue their campaigns generate. A new column called “Original Conversion Value ...

1 In late 1975, President Gerald Ford had a unique vision for making America great again. He wanted to embrace a French invention – one that Thomas Jefferson himself had championed. He wanted America ...

Air cargo plays a pivotal role in today’s interconnected global economy, driving trade value far beyond its modest share of physical volume. According to IATA research, while air freight accounts for ...

Once a holdout on AC traction, NS now boasts the industry’s most modernized locomotive fleet thanks to a $2 billion rebuild program Norfolk Southern AC44C6M No. 4463, the 1,000th unit in Wabtec’s ...

Back when I was a Catholic-school kid in northern Wisconsin, my school lessons briefly focused on the metric system. This was in the late 1970s. Along with learning cursive and the referents of rosary ...

The first completed project in the program is located at 281 Franklin St., where five floors of offices were converted into 15 apartments. At 281 Franklin Street (left to right): Adam Burns, developer ...