The Congress agreed to his request in 1955 for the Formosa Resolution, which enabled him to prevent Chinese communist aggression against Chinese nationalists and established U. S. policy of defending Taiwan.

In 1955, Bob Casey, a well-known " sock hop " DJ, brought the two-turntable system to the U. S. Throughout the 1950s, payola continued to be a problem and one result of the payola scandal was tighter control of the music by station management.

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.

In the U. S., a post-WW2 tendency toward questioning the establishment and societal norms and the early activism of the Civil Rights Movement was reflected in Hollywood films such as Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), Paddy Chayefsky's Marty and Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men ( 1957 ).

In computing, the KOMPILER was one of the first language compilation and runtime systems for International Business Machines ' IBM 701, the fastest commercial U. S. computer available in 1955.

Between 1955 and 1969 over 2, 000 books were published using lesbianism as a topic, and they were sold in corner drugstores, train stations, bus stops, and newsstands all over the U. S. and Canada.

On July 29, 1955, the White House announced that the U. S. intended to launch satellites by the spring of 1958.

By 1955, the internal power struggle between the two ( main ) factions of the Phibul regime-led by Police General Phao Sriyanonda, on the one hand, and General ( later, Field Marshal ) Srisdi Dhanarajata, on the other-became fierce to the degree that Police General Phao Sriyanonda sought the U. S. support for a coup against the Phibul regime ( but was rejected ).

The U. S. responded by giving an unprecedented degree of economic aid to the Kingdom from 1955 to 1959.

In terms of economic development, the Srisdi regime did not only continue what the Phibul regime had done since 1955, but it also significantly intensified this development with full support from the U. S. due to the regime's decision to cut all ties with the People's Republic of China and its full support for the U. S. operation in Indochina.

He served in the U. S. Army from 1955 to 1957, working at the National Security Agency.

* January 12 – Ira Hayes, U. S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima ( d. 1955 )

The highly successful U. S. Project Rover which ran from 1955 through 1972 accumulated over 17 hours of run time.

* The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell ( U. S .) also known as One Man Mutiny ( UK ) ( 1955 )

Vice Admiral Mustin, a 1955 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served in the 1980s as the Naval Inspector General, Commander, Second Fleet and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans and Policy.

In 1955, however, Perot expressed some discontent with his life in the U. S. Navy in a letter to his father.

* List of number-one singles of 1955 ( U. S .)

Nimoy served as a sergeant in the U. S. Army from 1953 through 1955, alongside fellow actor Ken Berry and architect Frank Gehry.

Accruing considerable U. S. support due to his staunch anti-Communism, he achieved victory in a 1955 plebiscite, which was fraudulent.

In 1955 the U. S. Naval Observatory joined the growing astronomical presence, and established the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, where Pluto's satellite, Charon ( moon ) was discovered in 1978.

* Clifton Sprague ( 1896 – 1955 ), World War II – era officer in the U. S. Navy

In 1955 the U. S. Senate initiated a groundbreaking bill which authorized the construction of 540, 000 public housing units over four years.

In the U. S. alone, more than seven thousand sets of the ten-volume edition had been sold by 1955.

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

To fill the job of contemporary hero in 1955, Patchen needed someone else.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

We have concluded that petitioner's claims are controlled by the rationale of Gonzales v. United States, 348 U.S. 407 ( 1955 ), and United States v. Nugent, 346 U.S. 1 ( 1953 ), and therefore affirm the judgment.

He was not prosecuted, however, and his case was subsequently reopened, in the light of Sicurella v. United States, 348 U.S. 385 ( 1955 ).

SAAMI's financial support since 1955 has contributed to the success of this project in education.

The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.

Whipple ( 1955 ) extends the effects to include the solar-corpuscular-radiation pressure, which increases both the minimum particle size and the drag.

De Jager ( 1955 ) has calculated the times required for these particles to reach the atmosphere under the influence of the Poynting-Robertson effect, which in this case causes the orbits to become more and more eccentric without changing the semi-major axis.

According to Whipple ( 1955 ), cometary debris is sufficient to replenish the material spiraling into the sun, maintaining a fairly steady state.

Alpers, Robbins and Rall, 1955 ).

The international unit ( u. ), adopted to make possible the comparison of results from different laboratories ( Mussett and Perry, 1955 ), has been defined as the amount of activity present in 13.5 mg of the International Standard Preparation.

Such sections showed bright yellow-green specific fluorescence in the cells of the pseudophloem tissue ( Lee and Black, 1955 ).

The initiation of sampling censuses in Ruanda-Urundi ( 1952 ) and in the Congo ( 1955 - 57 ) were major advances.

Reports already issued on the sampling census, 1955 - 57, in various areas run as follows ( using only the French and omitting corresponding Flemish titles ).

Burnham, in his excellent article ( 1955 ) concerning schizophrenic communication, includes mention of similar clinical material.

Coverage of the literature extends through 1954 and includes some 1955 references.

Urethane foam, as only one example, was only introduced commercially in this country in 1955.

Mr. Reama, who retired as vice president of the American Screw Co. in 1955 said, `` Both parties in the last election told us that we need a five per cent growth in the gross national product -- but neither told us how to achieve it ''.

He missed the 1955 season because of an operation on the ailing knee, then played 77 minutes in 1956.

Huff, who received a salary of $109 a week from the loan association from October of 1955 until September of this year, said that his private practice was not lucrative.

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

Benched at Tulsa in 1955, he told manager Dutch Meyer: `` I can't play for you.

The " Greenwich Atomic " ( GA ) scale began in 1955 at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.