Industrial standards; evaluation of project 910

AS AN EXPERIMENT, THE PROJECT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED TO SOLVE A PROBLEM (OR ACHIEVE A PURPOSE) BUT RATHER TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE TYPE OF ASSISTANCE PROBABLY COULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM IF APPLIED ON A LARGER SCALE. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ARE DETAILED AT THE END OF THIS EVALUATION. THIS EVALUATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS PROJECT IS BASED ON A SAMPLING OF ITS EXTENSIVE RAMIFICATIONS. THE SAMPLING WAS DETERMINED BY READING MOST OF THE REPORTS ISSUED DURING THE PERIOD AND SOME OF THE GENERAL FILES; INTERVIEWING SOME OF THE MANY OFFICERS IN THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS AND AID ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROJECT; AND VISITING ECUADOR, BOLIVIA, AND ETHIOPIA. IN EACH COUNTRY THERE WAS AN EXTENSIVE ROUND OF INTERVIEWS AND IN THE FIRST TWO VISITS TO LABORATORIES OF THE STANDARDS INSTITUTIONS. A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LIST OF INTERVIEWEES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT.