* Commodore International ( also known as Commodore Business Machines ), a computer company founded in 1954 and declared bankrupt in 1994, or several of its products and affiliates, including:

The company that would become Commodore Business Machines, Inc. was founded in 1954 in Toronto as the Commodore Portable Typewriter Company by Polish immigrant and Auschwitz survivor Jack Tramiel.

In 1954, the company was still underperforming, and sold vehicle manufacturing operations ( the primary asset of the company ) to the Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation of Detroit.

Bellanca remained President and Chairman of the Board from the corporation's inception on the last day of 1927 until he sold the company to L. Albert and Sons in 1954.

The widely condemned attack on Qibya led to calls by government officials to disband the unit, which was instead merged with T ' zanhanim company during January 1954.

In 1954, Royal Crown was the first to sell a soft drink in a can, and later the first company to sell a soft drink in an aluminum can.

Also in 1954, control of Silver City passed to P & O via General Steam Navigation, which had acquired a 70 % stake in BAS, the airline's parent company.

Mass transit service after the end of electric interurban service was provided by Oregon Motor Stages, but that company suspended all operations following a drivers strike in 1954.

Roe Canada Ltd. was restructured in 1954 as a holding company with two aviation subsidiaries: Avro Aircraft Ltd. and Orenda Engines Ltd., which began operating under these names on 1 January 1955.

In 1954 the Canadian government decided to sell the plant and Avro Canada agreed to purchase it to maintain production of the Orenda and Iroquois engines. The company employed over 400 in the production of precision forgings, blades, jet engine components, close-tolerance forging, and operation of aluminum and magnesium foundries.

At the 35th Annual General Meeting in August 1954 the chairman advised the profound regret of the board and all associated with the company, including the users of the some 65, 000 vehicles which had been made since 1946, for their joint circumstances.

* In 1954, Hilton hotels bought the Statler Hotel chain, making it the largest hospitality company in the world.

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

Ford used it until October 27, 1954, when it was dismantled and sold to a company in LongLac, Ontario.

* Lynn Forester de Rothschild ( born 1954 ), Chief Executive Officer of E. L. Rothschild, a holding company she owns with her husband Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild.

Assuming that the town would be in full foliage, the company showed up for outdoor shots on September 27, 1954.

Decca started recording in stereo on 14 – 28 May 1954, in Victoria Hall in Geneva, the first European record company to do so, only three months after RCA Victor began recording in stereo in the U. S. Decca archives show that Ernest Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande recorded Tamara by Mily Balakirev ; the overture to Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz ; Stenka Razin by Alexander Glazunov ; and Anatoly Liadov's Baba-Yaga, Eight Russian Folksongs, and Kikimora.

Other sponsors, whose products appeared during the original openings, were Procter & Gamble for Cheer and Lilt Home Permanent ( 1954 – 57 ), General Foods for Sanka ( 1955 – 57 ), Ford Motor Company ( 1957 – 58 ), and Westinghouse company ( 1958 – 60 ).

After several further spells in hospital, Powell moved to Paris in 1959, in the company of Altevia " Buttercup " Edwards, whom he'd met after an incarceration in 1954.

His continued expansion of the company into new sectors — such as chemicals ( 1939 ), technology ( 1945 ), cosmetics ( 1952 ), marketing, engineering, and manufacturing ( 1954 ), tea ( 1962 ), and software services ( 1968 )— earned Tata Group international recognition.

In 1954 Holloway joined the Old Vic theatre company to play Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Robert Helpmann as Oberon and Moira Shearer as Titania.

It also performed on television, at the Edinburgh International Festival and, by invitation, in South Africa. The company was retired in 1954.

The company was named after the original metal stamping company FACEL, and the company's first model, the Vega, named after the star, was introduced at the 1954 Paris Auto Show.

* 1880 – Gideon Sundbäck, Swedish-American electrical engineer and businessman, developed the zipper ( d. 1954 )

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

In 1954, NNS, together with Westinghouse and the Navy, developed and built a prototype nuclear reactor for a carrier propulsion system.

The first practical application of superconductivity was developed in 1954 with Dudley Allen Buck's invention of the cryotron.

In 1954, France and the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) developed a detailed plan called the Saarstatut to establish an independent Saarland.

From 1954 onward, the city developed extensive building plans to accommodate upwards of 220, 000 inhabitants, helping it become the third fastest-growing city in France, after Toulouse and Montpellier ( 1999 census ).

The second use of a gas turbine in an armoured fighting vehicle was in 1954 when a unit, PU2979, specifically developed for tanks by C. A. Parsons & Co., was installed and trialled in a British Conqueror tank.

In his 1954 responsum on relations with non-Orthodox Judaism, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik developed the intellectual foundations for the way Modern Orthodox Judaism was to approach the issue in subsequent decades.

Along with Colonel Jean Gardes, who had first theorized counter-insurgency tactics during the Indochina War ( 1947 – 1954 ), Jean Ousset developed the concept of " subversion " referring to an essential enemy threatening the existence of Occident itself.

A predecessor metric was developed by Branch Rickey in 1954.

A year later a rivalry developed between the two on the issue of the Lavon Affair, a failed 1954 Israeli covert operation in Egypt.

The terms were coined in 1954 by linguist Kenneth Pike, who argued that the tools developed for describing linguistic behaviors could be adapted to the description of any human social behavior.

After WWII, Kai Siegbahn and his group in Uppsala ( Sweden ) developed several significant improvements in the equipment and in 1954 recorded the first high-energy-resolution XPS spectrum of cleaved sodium chloride ( NaCl ) revealing the potential of XPS.

To power the CF-105 Arrow supersonic interceptor, Orenda developed the PS. 13 Iroquois engine between 1953 and 1954.

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.

Although Fuller was not the original inventor, he developed the intrinsic mathematics of the dome, thereby allowing popularization of the idea — for which he received U. S. patent 2, 682, 235 29 June 1954.

Gerald Gould was the president of the corporation that developed Lehigh Acres which began in business in 1954.

( Poster was later to found Coastal Federal Savings and Loan Association and use connections developed during his military service as a Dutch national in the US Army during World War II to help convince the US Government to declare that the damage done by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 should be covered by insurance.

CBS had once backed its own color system, developed by Peter Goldmark, and resisted using RCA's compatible process until 1954.

The British Decca recording engineers Arthur Haddy, Roy Wallace and Kenneth Wilkinson developed in 1954 the famous Decca tree, a stereo microphone recording system for big orchestras.

From 1954 the BSO developed its present role of giving concerts at more venues in the southwest of England.

Jetboats were originally designed by Sir William Hamilton ( who developed a waterjet in 1954 ) for operation in the fast-flowing and shallow rivers of New Zealand, specifically to overcome the problem of propellers striking rocks in such waters.

Synergetics is a self-help system developed by Art Coulter in 1954.

In the context of these troubles, and Rand ’ s reported frustrations in her own marriage, Branden and Rand — who had a passionate philosophic bond — developed amorous feelings for each other, and, with the reluctant permission of their spouses, began a love affair in 1954.