title: Weights and Measures (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
author:  Joseph Roth 
description: Published in Amsterdam in 1934 and translated into English in 1982, this book offers the perils of Eibensch tz, who, on the urging of his wife, takes a job as a weights and measures inspector. He soon learns that his wife is cheating on him, he has no hope of being effective in his post owing to criminal activity, and the woman to whom his own affections have strayed is sleeping with the area's leading smuggler. <br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  HOW MUCH
  AND
  HOW MANY
  THE STORY OF WEIGHTS
  AND MEASURES
  by Jeanne
  Bendick
  WHITTLESEY HOUSE
  McGRAW-HlLL BOOK COMPANY, INC,
  NEW YORK
  : LONDON
  
  HOW MUCH AND HOW MANY
  Copyright, 1947,
  /?>• M^ McGraw-Hill Book Company,
  Inc.
  All
  rights
  reserved.
  This
  book, or parts thereof, may not
  be
  reproduced
  in
  any form
  without the permission of the
  publisher.
  EIGHTH PRINTING
  PUBLISHED BY WHITTLESEY HOUSE
  A DIVISION OF THE MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY,
  LNG.
  PRINTED
  IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  
  To Robin
  and Peter
  and Susie
  and Mickey
  and Susie #
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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  My thanks to everybody who helped make this book.
  And especially to
  Hugh Odishaw
  of the National Bureau
  of Standards,
  Charles
  Calisher,
  Louis
  X.
  Garfunkel,
  Barbara
  and
  Murray Berk, Arthur Paul Hess, Edwin
  S. Brennglass,
  Ph.G.,
  B.S., Marc Bendick, John Ganz, and Gil Fates,
  for work in all of their special fields.
  Of course,
  to Mary Elting