* Forward Look: Virgil Exner's radical " Forward Look " redesign of Chrysler Corporation's vehicles for the 1955 model year was emphasized by the adoption of a logo by the same name, applied to all Chrysler Corporation vehicles.

Mexican production began in 1955 because of agreements with companies such as Chrysler in Mexico and the Studebaker-Packard Corporation which assembled cars imported in CKD form.

In 1955, Ford Motor Company established a proving ground ( now one of the Chrysler Proving Grounds ) in nearby Yucca, Arizona at the former Yucca Army Airfield.

Besides high hourly wage rates and paid vacations, Reuther negotiated these benefits for his union: employer-funded pensions ( beginning in 1950 at Chrysler ), medical insurance ( beginning at GM in 1950 ), and supplementary unemployment benefits ( beginning at Ford in 1955 ).

The UAW negotiated employer-funded pensions at Chrysler, medical insurance at GM, and in 1955 supplementary unemployment benefits at Ford.

*** The Chrysler 300 letter series ( 1955 – 1965 )

* 1955: Royce Howes, Detroit Free Press, " for an editorial on ' The Cause of a Strike ,' impartially and clearly analyzing the responsibility of both labor and management for a local union's unauthorized strike in July, 1954, which rendered 45, 000 Chrysler Corporation workers idle and unpaid.

In 1955, Chrysler did away with the out of fashion high roofline designs of K. T.

The 1955 Imperial, one of the first Exner-styled Chrysler vehicles

They were showcased on the first cars designed under his full supervision for sale: the 1955 Chrysler 300 series, and the Imperial.

Exner's 1957 Chrysler 300 letter series # 1955 C-300 | Chrysler 300C had a lasting impact on car styling in Detroit

Originally named the Falcon after Exner's 1955 Chrysler Falcon concept car, the vehicle was renamed the ' Valiant ' honoring Henry Ford II's request to use the name for the Ford Falcon.

: For Chrysler branded models before 1955 and after 1983 see Chrysler Imperial.

Imperial was the Chrysler Corporation's luxury automobile brand between 1955 and 1975, with a brief reappearance in 1981 to 1983.

For the 1955 model year, the Imperial was launched and registered as a separate marque, apart from the Chrysler brand.

Chrysler introduced Forward Look Styling by Virgil Exner, who would define Imperial's look ( and the look of cars from the other four Chrysler divisions ) from 1955 to 1963.

The 1955 models are said to be inspired by Exner's own 1952 Chrysler Imperial Parade Phaeton show cars ( which were themselves later rebodied to match the 1955-56 Imperials ).

These dimensions are entirely different from the 1955 Chrysler 301.

The Chrysler Corporation introduced the Imperial as a separate luxury make and division in 1955.

The first time was in 1955 when a full-dress Big Four summit meeting produced the `` spirit of Geneva ''.

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).

Some < sup > 238 </ sup > U atoms, however, could absorb another two neutrons ( for a total of 17 ), resulting in < sup > 255 </ sup > Es, as well as in the < sup > 255 </ sup > Fm isotope of another new element, fermium .< ref >< sup > 254 </ sup > Es, < sup > 254 </ sup > Fm and < sup > 253 </ sup > Fm would not be produced because of lack of beta decay in < sup > 254 </ sup > Cf and < sup > 253 </ sup > Es </ ref > The discovery of the new elements and the associated new data on multiple neutron capture were initially kept secret on the orders of the U. S. military until 1955 due to Cold War tensions and competition with Soviet Union in nuclear technologies.

123 German movies were produced in 1955, only 65 in 1965.

Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

* Philby, Burgess and MacLean – Spy Scandal of the Century, a BBC drama produced for TV in 1977, covers the period of the late 1940s, when British intelligence investigated Kim Philby's colleague Donald Maclean until 1955 when the British government cleared Philby because it did not have enough evidence to convict him.

The screen test used an early script for Rebel Without A Cause that bears no relation to the film eventually produced in 1955.

Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised from 1955 to 1959 by ABC, featuring a regular but ever-changing cast of child performers.

Italy produced 1, 432, 990 tons of spaghetti in 1955, of which 74, 000 tons was exported, and had a production capacity of 3 million tons.

Perhaps the best-known film adaptation of Shakespeare's play Richard III is the 1955 version directed and produced by Sir Laurence Olivier, who also played the lead role.

Rocketdyne, which had been spun off by North American in 1955, was re-merged into Rockwell in 1984, and by that time produced most of the rocket engines used in the United States.

On radio RTÉ Radio produced its first radio soap Kennedys of Castleross which began broadcasting on April 13, 1955 and ran until 1975.

Urea and formaldehyde, reacted together to produce sparingly soluble polymers of various molecular weights, is one of the oldest controlled-nitrogen-release technologies, having been first produced in 1936 and commercialized in 1955.

In 1955, in his directing début, Richardson produced Jean Giraudoux's The Apollo of Bellac for Television with Denholm Elliott and Natasha Parry in the main roles.

The first Miffy book was produced in 1955, and almost 30 others have followed.

Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities.

In 1954 Citroën produced the world's first hydropneumatic self-levelling suspension system, then in 1955 the revolutionary Citroën DS, the first European production car with disc brakes.

He concentrated on directing for TV and film from the 1955 film A Man Alone and Lisbon for Republic Pictures that he also produced.

From 1955 – 57, Al Gannaway produced both The Country Show and Stars of the Grand Ole Opry, filmed programs syndicated by Flamingo Films.

The proposal, using a military Redstone missile, was rejected in 1955 by the Eisenhower administration in favor of the Navy's Project Vanguard, using a booster produced for civilian space launches.

The Chrysler 300 letter series began in 1955 with the Chrysler C-300.