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In 1954, Grade was approached by American producer Hannah Weinstein to finance a series of 39 half hour episodes, at a budget of £ 10, 000 an episode, of a series she wished to make called ' The Adventures of Robin Hood ', for which she had already signed Richard Greene to the project as Robin Hood and been given the backing of US distribution company, Official Films Inc, who were confident of selling it to the US market.
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Since June 10, 1954 it has been a Grade I listed building.
First Grade Class standing in front of Booneville Elementary School, former Booneville Co-Educational Institute, 1954.
* Smithdon High School, Hunstanton, Norfolk ( 1949 – 1954 ; a Grade II * listed building )
That school, Pensacola Christian Grade School, opened in 1954.
In 1954, he was awarded a doctorate in literature from Tokyo University, and, in 1959, he received the Zuihōshō ( Order of Merit ) Fourth Grade.
It is a Grade I listed building, listed on 16 March 1954 The chapel contains examples of mediaeval paintings from around 1300 which include paintings around the altar window of St. Peter, St. Paul, and two angels.
Smeaton's tower has been a Grade I listed building since 1954.
Until 1954 only a three-year course was provided ; thereafter fourth-year pupils were presented for appropriate examinations and, after 1962, for the S. C. E Ordinary Grade examinations, with opportunity for the S. C. E Higher Grade examinations to be studied at one of the Grammar Schools or Senior Secondary Schools.
The building was Grade II * listed in 1954.
ITC was founded by television mogul Lew Grade in 1954 as the Incorporated Television Programme Company.
* Decoration Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Grade of Grand Cross Special Class in December 1954.
The buildings have been Grade I listed since 1954.
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But with the renewal of interference in 1954 ( as with its beginning in 1835 ), the improvement was impaired.
For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.
The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.
In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities.
For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.
Since this type of item was not in the statute when section 381 was enacted in 1954, one cannot say with certainty what effect the enactment of that section should have.
This was the biggest annual outlay since the Communist program for the under-developed countries made its modest beginning in 1954.
It was first tried out on a conventional submarine, the Albacore, in 1954.
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.
Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.
In 1943, he founded the University of Lawsonomy in Des Moines to spread his teachings and offer the degree of " Knowledgian ," but after various IRS and other investigations it was closed and finally sold in 1954, the year of Lawson's death.
Their best finish of this period was under the management of Englishman Jesse Carver, when in 1954 – 55 they finished as runners-up, after Udinese who originally finished second were relegated for corruption.
( When the award name was changed in 1954, Capp also retroactively received a Reuben statuette.
In 1954, when Capp was applying for a Boston television license, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) received an anonymous packet of pornographic Li ' l Abner drawings.
He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.
The Roman epic The Eagle, based on the 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, was filmed on location in Achiltibuie for a week in October 2009.
Since the rule was reinstated in its present form, Gil Hodges of the Dodgers holds the record for most sacrifice flies in one season with 19, in 1954 ; Eddie Murray holds the record for most sacrifice flies in a career with 128.
The rule was again adopted in 1939, only to be eliminated again in 1940, before being adopted for the last time in 1954.
She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.
She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.
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As the 1954 congressional elections approached, and it became evident that the Republicans were in danger of losing their thin majority in both houses, Eisenhower was among those blaming the Old Guard for the losses, and took up the charge to stop suspected efforts by the right wing to take control of the GOP.
The Scranton Transit Company, whose trolleys had given the city its nickname, transferred all operations to buses as the 1954 holiday season approached.
Prof. Dr. Evert Gorter ( 1881 – 1954 ) and F. Grendel of Leiden University approached the problem from a different perspective, spreading the erythrocyte lipids as a monolayer on a Langmuir-Blodgett trough.
When Kelmsley Winnick, one of the consortia that had been awarded a franchise in the new Independent Television network in 1954 collapsed, the ITA approached ABPC to step into the breach.
A few years later he approached the surrealist group in 1948, then the College of Pataphysique in 1954.
The former branch line terminus at Crystal Palace High Level railway station closed in 1954, and the remaining Crystal Palace railway station is situated some distance below Upper Norwood and approached by many steps.
Sometime between 1952 and 1954, Woody Gelman, the head of Product Development at Topps, approached the cartoonist Wesley Morse to create Bazooka Joe and his Gang.
Sales never approached that of either the LeSabre or Electra models, but were consistent with the traditional sales penetration of Buick's sporty mid-priced models ( the 1954 to 1958 Century and 1963 to 1970 Wildcat ).
These included Blackpool's Stanley Matthews, whom Whittaker approached after the Tangerines visit to Highbury in 1954.
Junkermann showed class as an amateur and was approached twice in 1954 to defect to the GDR and become a paid amateur but Junkermann wanted to stay in West Germany and be a professional.
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