The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
 

> It's the 95th anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in
> Boston that killed 21 people and injured hundreds mo [...]
> But I wonder why every account of the story that I've read, all the
> measurements are metric. Was it commonplace to the metric system in
> 1919 Boston?

Stephen Puleo's book "Dark Tide" (which I have) uses tons and gallons,
and so do all the newspaper reports of the time that he quotes. The
only metric units he uses are for money.

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