The Jeep has been widely imitated around the world, including in France by Delahaye and by Hotchkiss et Cie ( after 1954, Hotchkiss manufactured Jeeps under license from Willys ), and in Japan by Mitsubishi Motors and Toyota.

After 1954, Hotchkiss manufactured Jeeps under licence from Willys.

Delage was absorbed into Hotchkiss along with Delahaye in 1954, and car manufacturing ended.

Portrait of Wally, a 1912 portrait, was purchased by Rudolf Leopold in 1954 and became part of the collection of the Leopold Museum when it was established by the Austrian government, purchasing more than 5, 000 pieces that Leopold had owned.

In late 1954 the USAF purchased the development rights to this saucer-shaped VTOL vehicle powered by more conventional engines than, and designed to avoid many of the problems with, the Y-1.

Jack Venman purchased 255 acres of land on West Mount Cotton Road in the Shire of Redland in 1954.

In 1954, Beckman Instruments ( now Beckman Coulter ) purchased the company, forming the basis of its Spinco centrifuge division.

In 1954, 465 acres of land adjacent to the Mad River at the northeast boundary of the base, near the former location of the village of Osborn, were purchased for a Strategic Air Command facility as part of SAC's dispersal program.

The company's Soviet share was purchased by Romania and, on 18 September 1954, the airline adopted the name of TAROM-( Transporturi Aeriene Române-Romanian Air Transport ).

In 1954 Fairchild purchased the American Helicopter Company, incorporating it and the XH-26 Jet Jeep as a division.

In 1954 TAA became the first airline outside Europe to introduce the Vickers Viscount ' propjet ', and in 1981 it introduced the Airbus A300, the first wide-body aircraft to be purchased by an Australian domestic airline.

Eventually, on 24 June 1954, a group of volunteers funded by Alan Pegler purchased the company to run it as a tourist attraction and gradually restored the line to working order.

In 1954, GD purchased Convair and reorganised Canadair as its Canadian subsidiary.

Michael Garrison and his partner at the time, Gregory Ratoff, purchased the film rights to Ian Fleming's first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1954 for $ 600.

Industrialist Pierre S. du Pont ( 1870 – 1954 ) purchased the property from the Peirce family in 1906 to save the arboretum from being sold for lumber.

The Mutual System's owner, General Tire and Rubber Company, purchased a controlling interest in CKLW and its owner at the time, Western Ontario Broadcasting in 1956, along with RKO General ( which had purchased a minority interest in 1954, and had controlled Mutual since 1952 ).

They were rented from the British War Office as trials vehicles until 1954, when they were purchased outright.

Universal Studios purchased the screen rights to the novel in 1953, since the novel was a popular sci-fi best seller, and made it into a Technicolor film in 1954, which was then released on June 1, 1955.

* In 1954 the castle was purchased and restored by the 7th Viscount Gort.

In 1954, MacDonald Brothers Aircraft was purchased by the British Bristol Aeroplane Company, becoming their Canadian division.

Between 1954 and 1957 a total of 66 diesel-electric locomotives were purchased, including 25 Fairbanks-Morse H-24-66 Train Masters, and 40 H-16-44 smaller road switchers, two with steam generators to haul passenger trains.

Also during 1967, Stigwood purchased a controlling interest in Associated London Scripts, a writers ' agency co-founded by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes around 1954, in which many of Britain's best comedy and television scriptwriters had been involved.

In 2006, the Cardinals ' broadcasts moved to KTRS 550 AM after 52 seasons on KMOX ( 1954 – 2005 ) after the team purchased controlling interest in KTRS.

Over the years other parcels of mixed conifer forests, including the much larger South Calaveras Grove of Giant Sequoias ( purchased in 1954 for $ 2. 8 million USD ), have been added to the park to bring the total area to about.

Production of Maker's Mark started in 1954, after its originator, T. William " Bill " Samuels Sr., purchased the distillery known as " Burks ' Distillery " in Loretto, Kentucky for $ 35, 000.

The University officially purchased the estate in 1951, and in 1954 named the campus for her father, C. W.

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.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

* 1954 – Colette, French writer ( b. 1873 )

* 1954 – François Hollande, French politician, 24th President of France

* 1954 – François Valéry, French singer-songwriter and composer

The film won the 1954 Prix Jean Vigo, but was banned by French censors for its criticism of French colonialism.

The French Army used existing mounted squadrons of Spahis to a limited extent for patrol work during the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 ) and the Swiss Army maintained a mounted dragoon regiment for combat purposes until 1973.

A 1954 article by Truffaut attacked La qualité française (" the French Quality ") and was the manifesto for ' la politique des Auteurs ' which Andrew Sarris later termed the auteur theory — resulting in the re-evaluation of Hollywood films and directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang and Anthony Mann.

He was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Legion of Honor in 1986 for his many years of work with the organization.

Although no country has adopted Esperanto officially, Esperanto was recommended by the French Academy of Sciences in 1921 and recognized in 1954 by UNESCO ( which later, in 1985, also recommended it to its member states ).

* Derrida, Jacques, 1954 ( French ), 2003 ( English ).

* 1954: French Empire begins to be dismantled after suffering defeat at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam.

* In Indochina the French government was facing the Viet Minh communist rebels and lost its Indochinese colonies during the First Indochina War in 1954 after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

* 1870 – Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician ( d. 1954 )

* 1879 – Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1954 )

* 1875 – Charles Perrin, French rower ( d. 1954 )

* 1954 – Philippe Alliot, French race car driver

They were exhibited in 1946 and shown all together to the public during four years ( 1950 – 1954 ) in order to allow rightful claimants to identify their properties, then stored or displayed, according to their interest, in several French museums including the Louvre.

Laos gained full independence following the French defeat by the Vietnamese communists and the subsequent Geneva peace conference in 1954.

* 1889 – Yvonne de Bray, French actress ( d. 1954 )

* 1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory ( the battle began on March 13 ).

* Themes in French Culture, with Rhoda Metraux, 1954

* Émile Mâle ( 1862 – 1954 ), French art historian