Grammage are the same weight paper having different cut size. However, a sheet of common copy paper that has a basis weight of does not have the same mass as the same size sheet of coarse paper (newsprint). In the former case, the standard ream is 500 sheets of paper, and in the latter, 500 sheets of paper. Here are some basic ream sizes for various types of paper. Units are inches except where noted. Sheets can be cut into four sheets, a standard for business stationery known conventionally as "letter sized paper". So, the ream became commonly used. The book-paper
Norman B. Ream Todd Lincoln, Ream was the executor of Pullman's will. Ream served on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Steel. Additionally, Ream was involved in the railroad business, serving on the Board of Directors of the Pullman Company, as well as the Boards of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Chicago and Erie Railroad, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway, the Erie Railroad, the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway, the Pere Marquette Railway, and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Ream was also active in the insurance business, serving on the Boards of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the