When the company changed its name to Mobil Australia in 1954, the station's name was altered shortly afterwards to reflect that.

The mass-produced vacuum tube-based IBM 704 followed in 1954 ; it introduced the use of a biased exponent.

The Flying Red Horse ( Pegasus ) logo was introduced in 1939, and in 1954 the Plume brand was replaced by Mobilgas.

A " family-unit farming system " was introduced on a trial basis for the first time since collectivization in 1954.

The first color NTSC television camera was the RCA TK-40, used for experimental broadcasts in 1953 ; an improved version, the TK-40A, introduced in March 1954, was the first commercially available color television camera.

To encourage shooting and discourage stalling, the league introduced the 24-second shot clock in 1954.

This style was introduced in the third edition of Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary ( 1954 ), adopted by the Library of Congress as one of its ALA-LC romanizations, and is the most common version of the system today.

After months of trade screenings, Paramount introduced VistaVision to the public at Radio City Music Hall on October 14, 1954, with their first film shot in the process, White Christmas.

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

Eisenhower acted on his suggestion the next day and on February 8, 1954, Rep. Charles Oakman ( R-Mich .), introduced a bill to that effect.

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

In 1954, Lim Chin Siong, along with his Chinese High senior, Fong Swee Suan, was introduced to Lee Kuan Yew.

" Similar devices that functioned in the same way were patented in the 1930s, and the first mass-produced display tubes were introduced in 1954 by National Union Co. under the brand name Inditron.

IInevitably, derivatives of the Mother and Child Scheme would be introduced in Public Health Acts of 1954, 1957 and 1970.

The IBM 704, the first mass-produced computer with floating point arithmetic hardware, was introduced by IBM in 1954.

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

" In 1954 he introduced that quote, " For the first time in my life I saw how people live in an English-speaking country outside England ," and said it was interesting in light of his later decision to emigrate to Australia.

Two years prior to the NATO adoption of the 7. 62 × 51mm NATO T65 in 1954, Winchester ( a subsidiary of the Olin Corporation ) branded the cartridge and introduced it to the commercial hunting market as the 308 Winchester.

In the season 1945 – 46, Excelsior gained their first success by promoting to the Eerste Klasse, the highest tier of Dutch football before professional football was introduced in 1954.

In August 1954 the KNVB accepted the proposal and professional football was introduced.

Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).

The demand for unissued Holly material was so great that Norman Petty resorted to overdubbing whatever he could find: alternate takes of studio recordings, originally rejected masters, " Crying, Waiting, Hoping " and the other five 1959 tracks ( adding new surf-guitar arrangements ), and even Holly's amateur demos from 1954 ( where the low-fidelity vocals are often muffled behind the new orchestrations ).

Along with revitalization came many changes, including the closing of the Great Western sugar factory in 1955, and a new city charter, adopting a council-manager form of government in 1954.

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

Greenberg is widely known for his development of a new classification system for the languages of Africa, which he published as a series of articles in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology from 1949 to 1954 ( reprinted together as a book in 1955 ).

In 1954 plans were developed for a new Western District Office at Rathbone Place, which required a diversion, opening in 1958.

Although some of the basic workings of the theory were proposed and identified by Mayr in 1954, historians of science generally recognize the 1972 paper by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould as the foundational document of the new paleobiological research program.

Rock and roll appeared at a time when racial tensions in the United States were entering a new phase, with the beginnings of the civil rights movement for desegregation, leading to the Supreme Court ruling that abolished the policy of " separate but equal " in 1954, but leaving a policy which would be extremely difficult to enforce in parts of the United States.

However, it wasn't until he prepared a demo in 1954, that caught the attention of Specialty Records, that the world would start to hear his new, uptempo, funky rhythm and blues that would catapult him to fame in 1955 and help define the sound of rock ' n ' roll.

In 1954, the Eisenhower administration concurred with the new focus, with the President expressing a preference for military over civilian targets.

The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity is a new religious movement founded in South Korea in 1954 by the late Sun Myung Moon.

Adjustable spanner from 1954 with improved handle and new jaw angle of 15 degrees ( BAHCO ) 5.

The name " bonobo " first appeared in 1954, when Tratz and Heck proposed it as a new and separate generic term for pygmy chimpanzees.

They resisted it in numerous ways and sought better opportunities through lawsuits, new organizations, political redress, and labor organizing ( see the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1896 – 1954 )).

Haley hired several new musicians to take their place: Rudy Pompilli on sax, Al Rex ( a former member of the Saddlemen ) on double bass, and Ralph Jones on drums ; in addition, lead guitarist Franny Beecher, who had been a session musician for Haley since Cedrone's death in the fall of 1954, became a full-time Comet and Haley's first performing lead guitarist.

The new airport — named Ferryfield — opened on 14 July 1954, after six months ' work costing £ 400, 000.

* 1954 – Texaco adds the detergent additive Petrox to its " Sky Chief " gasoline, which was also souped up with higher octane to meet the antiknock needs of new cars with high-compression engines.

A restoration project began in 1954 and a new chapel was dedicated in 1955.

In the United States, and some other allied nations, 11 November was formerly known as Armistice Day ; in the United States it was given its new name in 1954 at the end of the Korean War to honor all veterans.

When his career took him to London in 1954 after his provincial apprenticeship, his agent informed him that there was already a Michael Scott performing as an actor in London and that he had to come up with a new name immediately.

His two-part campaign paid off when the " new " ABC hit the air on October 27, 1954.

Assuming the editorship himself from 1954 to 1959, Gilmour adopted a libertarian and pro-European outlook, and " enlivened the paper and injected a new element of irreverence, fun and controversy ".