The US National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) notes that: " The international nautical mile of 1 852 meters ( 6 076. 115 49 ... feet ) was adopted effective July 1, 1954, for use in the United States.

" Shakespeare's Lost Source-Plays ", Modern Language Review, 49: 1 ( Spring, 1954 ), 293 – 307

Bronstein was also a six-time winner of the Moscow Championships, and represented the USSR at the Olympiads of 1952, 1954, 1956 and 1958, winning board prizes at each of them, and losing just one of his 49 games in those events.

* Ayrshire First Division winners: 1921 – 22, 1928 – 29, 1932 – 33, 1948 – 49, 1950 – 51, 1954 – 55, 1956 – 57, 1957 – 58, 1960 – 61, 1969 – 70, 1970 – 71, 1988 – 89, 1993 – 94

* Baltimore Bullets ( 1944 – 1954 ), an American Basketball League franchise ( 1944 – 47 ) and National Basketball Association franchise ( 1947 – 49 ) that folded in 1954.

When it was released in 1954, the Regency TR-1 cost $ 49. 95 ( equivalent to $ today ) and sold about 150, 000 units.

* 1954 ( 49 ) Becomes dangerously ill with a bleeding ulcer and is hospitalized but recovers to work with Truman Capote on the musical House of Flowers.

* West Fife Cup: 1937 – 38, 1938 – 39, 1948 – 49, 1953 – 54, 1954 – 55, 1962 – 63

* Middlesex Charity Cup winners 1958 – 59, 1960 – 61 ; runners-up 1948 – 49, 1954 – 54, 1959 – 60, shared 1961 – 62

* Symposium, In Memoriam: Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, 49 Northwestern University Law Review 1 – 75, ( 1954 ).

** 1890 – 91, 1891 – 92, 1892 – 93, 1894 – 95, 1897 – 98, 1901 – 02, 1903 – 04, 1906 – 07, 1907 – 08, 1908 – 09, 1910 – 11, 1913 – 14, 1921 – 22, 1922 – 23, 1929 – 30, 1931 – 32, 1933 – 34, 1934 – 35, 1948 – 49, 1949 – 50, 1953 – 54, 1954 – 55, 1955 – 56, 1958 – 59, 1960 – 61, 1961 – 62, 1965 – 66, 1968 – 69, 1970 – 71, 1974 – 75, 1977 – 78, 1978 – 79, 1979 – 80, 1981 – 82, 1982 – 83, 1983 – 84, 1984 – 85, 1985 – 86, 1986 – 87, 1988 – 89, 1992 – 93, 1993 – 94, 1999 – 00, 2000 – 01, 2003 – 04, 2005 – 06, 2006 – 07, 2007 – 08, 2009 – 10, 2010 – 11, 2011 – 12

** 1898 – 99, 1903 – 04, 1905 – 06, 1906 – 07, 1907 – 08, 1912 – 13, 1913 – 14, 1916 – 17, 1921 – 22, 1922 – 23, 1927 – 28, 1928 – 29, 1929 – 30, 1931 – 32, 1932 – 33, 1933 – 34, 1934 – 35, 1937 – 38, 1941 – 42, 1946 – 47, 1948 – 49 †, 1952 – 53, 1954 – 55, 1957 – 58, 1958 – 59, 1960 – 61, 1961 – 62, 1962 – 63, 1965 – 66, 1966 – 67, 1972 – 73, 1976 – 77, 1980 – 81, 1981 – 82, 1982 – 83, 1983 – 84, 1994 – 95, 1997 – 98, 2000 – 01, 2003 – 04, 2004 – 05, 2005 – 06

* Thirds / Under 19s ( from 1936 ) – 1937, 1942, 1948 – 49, 1954, 1961, 1966, 2005 ( 8 total )

FA Trophy ( 19 times ) 1937 – 38, 1944 – 45, 1946 – 47, 1948 – 49, 1949 – 50, 1952 – 53, 1953 – 54, 1954 – 55, 1956 – 57, 1957 – 58, 1960 – 61, 1965 – 66, 1966 – 67, 1971 – 72, 1980 – 81, 1992 – 92, 1993 – 94, 2010 – 11

* Unofficial Welsh Club Champions: 1897-98 ; 1905 – 06 ; 1906 – 07 ; 1908 – 09 ; 1936 – 37 ; 1937 – 38 ; 1938 – 39 ; 1947 – 48 ; 1948 – 49 ; 1952 – 53 ; 1954 – 55 ; 1957 – 58 ; 1981 – 82 ;

In 1954, he was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates ; Holt's political career was to end where it started, for he died of cancer while in office, on February 8, 1955 at age 49.

After the war the Esperos football team played in Division 1 for three periods ( 1948 – 49, 1949 – 50 and 1954 – 55 ) and in Division 2 most of the time.

He died at Graz in Austria in 1954, aged 49.

The coldest temperature ever recorded in Val Marie is − 49. 4 (− 57 F ) on January 20, 1954.

His other novels are Island 49 ( 1945 ); The Sure Thing ( 1949 ); Reunion ( 1954 ); A Day in Late September ( 1956 ); A Secret Understanding ( 1961 ); A Gay and Melancholy Sound ( 1962 ); and What Happened ( 1972 ).

Beall was narrowly re-elected in 1954 after defeating Democrat Thomas D ' Alesandro, Jr., the mayor of Baltimore and father of future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by a margin of 51 %- 49 %.

* First Division champions ( 29 ): 1896 – 97, 1906 – 07, 1921 – 22, 1931 – 32, 1932 – 33, 1933 – 34, 1934 – 35 1947 – 48, 1948 – 49, 1952 – 53, 1953 – 54, 1954 – 55, 1957 – 58, 1958 – 59, 1959 – 60, 1962 – 63, 1963 – 64, 1964 – 65, 1965 – 66, 1971 – 72, 1972 – 73, 1973 – 74, 1974 – 75, 1975 – 76, 1976 – 77, 1983 – 84, 1999 – 00, 2000 – 01, 2001 – 02

The strike of 1948 / 49 and the lockout of 1954 / 55 both lasted for seven months.

He took over from band-leader Kay Kyser as host of the TV version of NBC quiz show Kollege of Musical Knowledge when it returned briefly in 1954 after a four-year hiatus.

After World War II, two factories dominated the manufacturing of banduras: the Chernihiv Musical Instrument Factory ( which produced 120 instruments a month, over 30, 000 instruments from 1954 to 1991 ) and the Trembita Musical Instrument Factory in Lviv ( which has produced over 3, 000 instruments since 1964 ).

However, when Hugh Tracey founded the company African Musical Instruments and started building kalimbas in Rudespoort, South Africa, and exporting them around the world in 1954, the note layout and tuning were not traditional.

Category: Musical groups established in 1954

Designed by Leo Fender, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares in 1954, it has been manufactured continuously by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation to the present.

* Regal Musical Instrument Company, a manufacturer of fretted musical instruments in Chicago from 1908 to 1954

With Wodehouse, Bolton wrote the semi-autobiographical book Bring on the Girls !, subtitled, " The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy " ( 1954 ).

The Screen Songs were eventually resurrected in 1951 as " Kartune Musical Shorts " ( ending in 1953 ), and as one-shot Noveltoons in 1954 (" Candy Cabaret ") and 1963 (" Hobo's Holiday ").

The musical caught the popular attention and ran for a successful 583 performances, winning the 1954 Tony Award for Best Musical.

He was an A & R Director at RCA Victor in charge of the company's popular Camden Label and served as the Musical Director for a recording in 1954 by John Serry, Sr ..

Category: Musical groups established in 1954

He wrote the book and lyrics for The Golden Apple in 1954 with music by Jerome Moross, which won the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award for Best Musical.

In 1954 Rose Brennan's cover was awarded third place by the New Musical Express for the best recording of the year.

Created by state law in 1951, and officially founded in 1954, the Conservatorio Dramatico e Musical Dr. Carlos de Campos, of Tatuí, represents one of the most successful achievements of the State of São Paulo, and perhaps of Brazil, in the music teaching field.

Category: Musical groups established in 1954

Petina also appeared on Broadway in such productions as Song of Norway ( 1947 ), Magdelena ( 1948 ), Hit the Trail ( 1954 ), Leonard Bernstein's Candide ( 1957 ), for which she received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and Anya ( 1965 ).

* Muddy Water ( 1954 ), a song from Bing: A Musical Autobiography by Bing Crosby's

He won the New Musical Express Poll for Best Band / Orchestra in 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961.

Category: Musical groups established in 1954