Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

The military has seized power three times in Colombia's history: in 1830, after the dissolution of Great Colombia ; again in 1854 ( by General José María Melo ); and from 1953 to 1957 ( under General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ).

Under Khrushchev the local party leadership in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Russian SFSR ) witnessed the largest turnover in provincial leaders since the Great Purge ; two out of three provincial leaders were replaced in 1953 alone.

In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.

Hollywood also made its own contribution to the genre with The Great Escape ( 1963 ) and the fictional Stalag 17 ( 1953 ).

By 1932, the Great Depression had forced studios to cut back on needless expense and it was not until 1953 that wider aspect ratios were again used in an attempt to stop the fall in attendance due, partially, to the emergence of television in the U. S. However, a few producers and directors, among them Alfred Hitchcock, have been reluctant to use the anamorphic widescreen size featured in such formats as Cinemascope.

The Great Global Rift, running along the Mid Atlantic Ridge, was discovered by Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen in 1953 while the mountain range under the Arctic was found in 1954 by the Arctic Institute of the USSR.

* 1953: Arts Council of Great Britain Prize for the best first book of poems for Poems

* 1953 – Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen discover the Great Global Rift running along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Notable bull markets marked the 1925-1929, 1953 – 1957 and the 1993-1997 periods when the U. S. and many other stock markets rose ; while the first period ended abruptly with the start of the Great Depression the end of the later time periods were mostly periods of soft landing, which became large bear markets.

The years of the Great Leap Forward in fact saw economic regression, with 1958 through 1961 being the only years between 1953 and 1983 in which China's economy saw negative growth.

During the 1950 ′ s, Pinewood gave birth to the huge financial successes of the Carry On ... and Doctor films series, produced on behalf of Rank by Peter Rogers and his wife Betty E. Box and directed by the brothers Gerald Thomas and Ralph Thomas respectively ( Doctor in the House was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain ) and the Norman Wisdom comedies, which between 1953 and 1966 initially made more money than the James Bond film series.

Great Negro Baseball Stars, and How They Made the Major Leagues, New York: A. S. Barnes, 1953.

In the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 52 was designated to run from the Ocean City side of the Great Egg Harbor causeway north to U. S. Route 9 in Somers Point.

Great Falls became the temporary home of the 582nd Air Resupply and Communications Wing on 1 May 1953 which was transferred from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.

Great Falls was reassigned to the Central Air Defense Force at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base in 1953.

On 18 December 1953, Great Falls AFB was transferred from Military Air Transport Service to Strategic Air Command ( SAC ), although MATS units remained at the base for several years.

However, it is the European coronation ceremonies, most specifically that used in Great Britain ( the last of which occurred in 1953 ), that are perhaps best known to most Westerners.

In 1953 the Great Egret in flight was chosen as the symbol of the National Audubon Society, which was formed in part to prevent the killing of birds for their feathers.

* Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Great Entertainers ( 1953 ) ( short subjects )

The Finnish version was originally published in 1952, with an English edition being published in Great Britain in 1953.

* The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan ( 1953 ) ( or The Great Gilbert and Sullivan in the US )

In 1838 it was reported in Bulgaria, but not until the 20th century did it expand across Europe, appearing in parts of the Balkans between 1900 – 1920, and then spreading rapidly northwest, reaching Germany in 1945, Great Britain by 1953 ( breeding for the first time in 1956 ), Ireland in 1959, and the Faroe Islands in the early 1970s.

During the Netherlands ' " Great Flood " in 1953 most of the land around Lepelstraat became flooded, costing almost two thousand lives.

In addition, he published several books for young readers, including a biography of Alexander the Great in 1953, and Meet Soviet Russia, a two-volume adaptation of Inside Russia Today in 1962.

* 1953 Adventures In The Skin Trade And Other Stories ( Adventures In The Skin Trade, an unfinished novel ).

* Classics Illustrated No. 112, The Adventures of Kit Carson ( October 1953 ), is based on John C. Abbott's 1873 book ; the comic book went through nine printings between 1953 and 1969.

Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March ( 1953 ) is a picaresque novel with bildungsroman traits.

* Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March ( 1953 )

This episode was based on Paul W. Fairman's Brothers Beyond the Void, published in the March 1952 issue of Fantastic Adventures and also included in August Derleth's 1953 anthology collection Worlds of Tomorrow.

* Science-Fiction Adventures in Dimension ( 1953 ) Variant Title: Adventures in Dimension ( 1955 )

In 1939, Palmer began a companion magazine to Amazing Stories titled Fantastic Adventures, which lasted until 1953.

Tracy Dawn Scoggins ( born November 13, 1953 ) is an American actress known for her roles as Cat Grant in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Monica Colby in the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty, and its spin-off series The Colbys.

The character is introduced in Adventures of a Honeybee ( 1953 ), but did not make its debut as lead character until 1978's Space Pirate Captain Harlock.

On November 24, 1941, Sothern performed in the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of Maisie Was a Lady, and the popularity of the film series led to her own radio program, The Adventures of Maisie, broadcast on CBS from 1945 to 1947, on Mutual Broadcasting System in 1952 and in syndication from 1949 to 1953.

* The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet-episode " Pancake Mix ", as the groceryman ( 1953 )

He played the title role in Bulldog Drummond ( 1942 – 43 ) and was heard in the daytime radio serial Perry Mason, 1948's Roger Kilgore, Public Defender, and as the title character in The Adventures of Charlie Chan ( 1947 – 1948 ), The Affairs of Peter Salem from 1949 to 1953, and Hannibal Cobb ( 1950 – 1951 ).

* Captain Marvel Adventures ( 150 issues, 1941 – 1953 )

In addition, Revue also made Alan Hale, Jr .' s Biff Baker, U. S. A. ( 1952 – 1953 ) and all three of Rod Cameron's syndicated series, City Detective ( 1953 – 1955 ), State Trooper ( 1956 – 1959 ), and COronado 9 ( 1960 – 1961 ) and the Bill Williams western series, The Adventures of Kit Carson ( 1951 – 1955 ).

* 1953: Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March

However, a dispute over the value of Disney's True-Life Adventures series of live-action documentary featurettes in 1953 led to Walt and his older brother Roy Oliver Disney to form its wholly owned subsidiary the Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, Inc. to handle the U. S. distribution of their own product.

Duryea starred as the lead character China Smith in the television series China Smith from 1952 to 1956 ; and The New Adventures of China Smith from 1953 to 1954.

* The New Adventures of China Smith ( 1953 – 1954 )

He played a private detective in a 1953 episode of Adventures of Superman TV series titled Semi-Private Eye.

** The Adventures of the Kind Mr. Smith ( 1953 )