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.

* 1954 – The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.

During the off-season of 1954, Williams was offered the chance to be manager of the Red Sox.

A color model from Westinghouse H840CK15 ($ 1, 295, or $ in today's dollars ) became available in the New York area on February 28, 1954 and is generally agreed to be the first production receiver using NTSC color offered to the public ; a less expensive color model from RCA ( RCA-CT100 ) reached dealers in April 1954.

In 1954 the Rambler offered the first industry combination heating and air conditioning unit that could be an add-on or installed at the factory for $ 395. 00, which at that time was about the lowest cost unit available in an American car.

The spontaneous creativity of Umm Kulthum as a singer is most impressive when, upon listening to these many different renditions of the same song over a time span of five years ( 1954 – 1959 ), the listener is offered a totally unique and different experience.

Rickenbacker offered dual coil pickups arranged in a humbucking pattern beginning in late 1953 but dropped the design in 1954 due to the perceived distorted sound.

All graduate programs offered at Texas Tech University are overseen by the Graduate School, which was officially established in 1954.

Broyles sought the head coaching position at Northwestern University in 1954, and ultimately left Georgia Tech in 1957 when he was offered the position of head coach at the University of Missouri.

* Russia: Decades later, Russia offered compensation to veterans who were part of the 1954 Totsk test.

Auto manufacturers are still trying to catch up with the combination of features offered by this 1954 suspension system, typically by adding layers of complexity to an ordinary steel spring mechanical system.

Internally numbered W198, it was introduced in 1954 as a two-seat sports car with distinctive gull-wing doors and later offered as an open roadster.

Classes were offered at the former Griffiss Air Force Base from 1954 to 1958 and again from 1969 to 1974.

1954 was the last year the long wheelbase sedan was offered by Chrysler.

Thinking that it would be more feasible to use the pages by modifying them into an established character, Liefeld attempted to acquire the rights to Fighting American, another patriotic-themed character created in 1954 by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, but when the rights holders offered the rights at a price Liefeld thought was too high, he created a similar character, Agent America, in order to compel the Fighting American rights holders to acquiesce to Liefeld's offered price.

In 1954 and 1955, road versions of his Indianapolis racers were offered.

The 1954 – 1956 Oldsmobile 98 Starfire convertibles were the most expensive Oldsmobiles offered during those years.

This engine was offered as a step up from the 235 starting in 1954.

Concerned about the integrity of his collection, Gilcrease offered it for sale as a unit in 1954.

Beginning in 1954, the Hydra-Matic 4-forward-speed automatic transmission is available in the Chevrolet Suburban ( GMC offered this transmission in 1953 ).

1954 saw Chrysler's first fully automatic transmission, two-speed PowerFlite, offered as an extra-cost option on all Dodges.

Taylor, the racehorse-loving head of the O ' Keefe Brewing Company and Argus Corporation, was already one of the city's most generous philanthropists, and in 1954, he offered to build a performing arts centre that would not only serve the needs of local institutions but to increase the diversity of entertainment options available in Toronto.

In 1954, O ' Donoghue was in the first intake of unqualified students to attend the Royal Adelaide Hospital which offered good nursing career prospects.