In 1955 Chrysler produced the C-300 with its 300 HP 331 cu in ( 5. 4 L ) OHV engine, which easily won in 1955 and 1956.

* 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.

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.

In 1955, the rocket engine division spun off into a separate company, Rocketdyne, but it was North American that designed and built the airframe for the X-15, a rocket-powered aircraft that first flew in 1959.

As the missile entered production, NAA spun off Rocketdyne in 1955 as a separate division.

Radio News was published until 1972 and in 1955 spun off Popular Electronics which was published until 1985.

With a booming economy short of unskilled workers, especially after the Berlin Wall cut off the steady flow of East Germans, the FRG negotiated migration agreements with Italy ( 1955 ), Spain ( 1960 ), Greece ( 1960 ), and Turkey ( 1961 ) that brought in hundreds of thousands of temporary guest workers, called Gastarbeiter.

* 1955 – Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently.

After sitting on the bench for the Pirates ' first three games, Clemente played on April 17, 1955, in the first game of a double header against the Dodgers and made his first major league hit, a ground ball that hit off the glove of shortstop Pee Wee Reese, as well as a catch-dubbed " heart-stopping " by a Pirates beat writer-to rob his Santurce teammate, Junior Gilliam.

On November 22, 1955, the Soviets set off RDS-37, which was their first thermonuclear bomb.

In 1920, the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Arts were added, from which latter the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences was split off in 1955 to form a separate Faculty.

In the film one of the characters mumbles that Jack Finney's 1955 novel The Body Snatchers is " a blatant rip off " of Heinlein's novel.

It was not until 1955, when " Rock Around the Clock " was used under the opening credits of the film Blackboard Jungle, that the song truly took off.

Under Nordhoff, production increased dramatically over the following decade, with the one-millionth car coming off the assembly line by 1955.

* The Caine Mutiny was only the second film of Robert Francis, who was being groomed for stardom – but on 31 July 1955, he was killed when the private plane he was piloting crashed shortly after take off from Burbank airport.

In 1955, she became the youngest person to swim the English Channel and in 1956, she swam the Strait of Juan de Fuca off the Pacific coast.

The rivalry between Collingwood and Melbourne was at its peak between 1955 and 1964, when the two played off in the grand final on five occasions.

After the People's Republic of China took control of Mainland China in 1949, the Republic of China government based in Taiwan continued to control the Dachen Islands off the coast of Zhejiang until 1955, even establishing a rival Zhejiang provincial government there, creating a situation similar to Fujian province today.

Darin's career took off with a songwriting partnership, formed in 1955 with fellow Bronx High School of Science student Don Kirshner, and in 1956 his agent negotiated a contract with Decca Records.

In 1955, " Startime Kids " went off air.

Green Wellington boots, introduced by Hunters in 1955, gradually became a shorthand for " country life " and have been popularly thought to be typical not only of " country folk " but also of people who are really townies but wear " green wellies " because they want to be thought to be " country folk ", in the same way that they own Range Rovers or other 4x4 vehicles which are never driven off road.

In recognition of his efforts to resolve the Moroccan Crisis leading up to the international conference, Abd al-Aziz appointed al-Muqri as his Minister of Finance and in 1908, his Grand Vizier, a post he would hold on and off under each of the succeeding sultans until 1955.

The 1955 model offered a V8 engine as an option ; however, the first seven off the production line featured the standard " Blue Flame " Inline-6.

Crossroads Charlie was rescheduled as Operation Wigwam, a deep water shot conducted in 1955 off the California coast.

It wasn't until the 1955 change to 360 cc as the upper limit for two-strokes as well as four-strokes that the class really began taking off, with cars from Suzuki ( Suzulight ) and then Subaru 360 finally able to fill people's need for basic transportation without being too severely compromised.

Flight 629 was using a Douglas DC-6B airliner that took off from Denver, Colorado's Stapleton Airfield ( later changed to Stapleton Airport ), bound for Portland, Oregon with continuing service to Seattle, Washington, on the evening of November 1, 1955.

on July 17, 1955, when he was taking a week off from the show to have an emergency appendectomy.

The highway kicked off an enormous expansion, and between 1955 and 1965 Burlington was the fastest growing town in the state.

The 1955 season saw his regular-season production drop off to a. 289 average, 27 HRs and 102 RBI, but the year ended with a most satisfying conclusion.