Standards: Standards association acquires added duties

Announcement has been made of the transfer of certain functions of the U.S. National Bureau of Standards to the American Standards Association, a federation of 37 national technical societies, trade associations, and governmental bodies. Headquarters of the American Standards Association are in the Engineering Societies Building, 29 West 39th Street, New York, N. Y. The activities which are being thus transferred include: Division of trade standards Division of specifications Division of simplified practice Building code and plumbing code sections of the building and housing division Safety code section