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

In 1954, Mobil introduced a new and improved Mobilgas Special in response to trends toward new automobiles powered by high-compression engines that demanded higher and higher octane gasolines.

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

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.

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.

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.

For calculations of OBP before 1954, or where sacrifice flies are not explicitly listed, the number of sacrifice flies should be assumed to be zero.

For the 1954 movie remake starring Audie Murphy and Thomas Mitchell, see Destry ( film ).

For IBM, the earliest Gibson Mix calculations shown are the 1954 IBM 650 at 0. 06 kIPS and 1956 IBM 705 at 0. 5 kIPS.

For information on the calendars included in pre-1970 editions ( a small part of the full texts ), see General Roman Calendar of 1962, General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII, General Roman Calendar as in 1954 and Tridentine Calendar.

Although Kelly won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best actress for her performances in her three big movie roles of 1954 ( Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, and The Country Girl ), she and Garland both received Golden Globe Awards for their respective performances.

For 1954, sales dropped, the stubby styling not going over well with the public.

For flight simulators with heavier cockpits, the Link Division of General Precision Inc. ( later part of Singer Corporation and now part of L-3 Communications ) in 1954 developed a system where the cockpit was housed within a metal framework that provided three degrees of displacement in pitch, roll, and yaw.

For instance, it caused him to drop out of the lead role in Hobson's Choice ( 1954 ).

For example, in an article in The American Weekly magazine of October 24, 1954, Oberth stated, " It is my thesis that flying saucers are real, and that they are space ships from another solar system.

* A Shilling For Candles: broadcast in 1954, 1963 and 1969, adapted by Rex Rienits ; in 1998, adapted by John Fletcher

For example, in 2008 an important but heavily soiled, distorted and water-damaged 1954 Dior outfit called Zemire was restored to displayable condition for the Golden Age of Couture exhibition.

For example, the Legion has condemned the display of cleavage in The Outlaw ( 1941 ) and in The French Line ( 1954 ).

He appeared at The Muny in St. Louis, MO as General Waverly in White Christmas ( 2000 ), Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady ( 1996 ); Emile de Becque in South Pacific ( 1992 ), and Adam in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers ( 1954 ).

For example the census alone in 1954 census found 1, 111 " irregular " Chinese-Malagasy unions, and 125 legitimate, i. e., legally married.

For 1954, a new aluminum-bodied closed coupe was unveiled at Earls Court, the AC Aceca.

For the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland, the Brazilian team was then almost completely renovated, so as to forget the Maracanã defeat, but still had a group of good players, including Nílton Santos, Djalma Santos, and Didi.

For instance, a Sikh couple who marry in accordance to the rites of the Sikh religion must register their marriage either under the Special Marriages Act ( 1954 ) or the Hindu Marriage Act – the Akalis demanded replacement of such rules with Sikhism-specific laws.

For most of the 1930s, the Dow began slowly to regain the ground it lost during the 1929 crash and the three years following it, but it would not return to the peak closing of September 3, 1929 until November 23, 1954.

After a two-year absence when he was with the U. S. Army ( 1953 – 1954 ), he returned to Gateway in its 1955 summer season, playing: Eddie Davis in Ronald Alexander's Time Out For Ginger ( July 1955 ), Hal Carter in William Inge's Picnic ( July 1955 ), Charles Wilder in John Willard's The Cat And The Canary ( August 1955 ), Paris in Arthur Miller's The Crucible ( August 1955 ), and John the Witchboy in William Berney and Howard Richardson's Dark Of The Moon ( September 1955 ).

For example, the Federal Reserve federal funds rate in the United States has varied between about 0. 25 % to 19 % from 1954 to 2008, while the Bank of England base rate varied between 0. 5 % and 15 % from 1989 to 2009, and Germany experienced rates close to 90 % in the 1920s down to about 2 % in the 2000s.

* For Better, for Worse ( 1954 )

In the 1950s, Wright appeared in several unsuccessful films, including The Capture ( 1950 ), Something to Live For ( 1952 ), California Conquest ( 1952 ), The Steel Trap ( 1952 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), The Actress ( 1953 ), and Track of the Cat ( 1954 ) opposite Robert Mitchum again.