Furlong the fundamental unit of land measurement. A furlong was forty rods, an acre four by 40 rods, or four rods by one furlong, and thus 160 square rods. At the time, the Saxons used the North German foot, which was 10 percent longer than the foot of today. When England changed to the shorter foot in the late 13th century, rods and furlongs remained unchanged, since property boundaries were already defined in rods and furlongs. The only thing that changed was the number of feet and yards in a rod or a furlong, and the number of square feet and
Women in Chains debut) virtually reprised a similar role fifteen years earlier in "Women's Prison"." "Women's Prison", released in February 1955, actually preceded the January 1972 broadcast of "Women in Chains" by seventeen years, and both Weldon and Marill also misstated Lupino's prison position (head guard) in the later film. Women in Chains Women in Chains is an American television film directed in 1972 by Bernard L. Kowalski for ABC's "The Movie of the Week". The leading players are Ida Lupino, Belinda Montgomery, Lois Nettleton and Jessica Walter. Parole officer Sandra Parker (Lois Nettleton) becomes aware of the death of one of her