Since the mid 1950s, when urethane foam first made its appearance in the American market, growth has been little short of fantastic.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

By the middle of the decade, some of the 1950s generation of American comedians, such as Jerry Lewis, went into decline, while Peter Sellers found success with international audiences in his first American film The Pink Panther.

American caver Bill Cuddington, known as " Vertical Bill ", developed the single rope technique ( SRT ) in the late 1950s.

The 1950s and early 1960s featured a boom in synagogue construction as upwardly mobile American Jews moved to the suburbs.

American actor Jay Robinson famously portrayed a sinister and scene-stealing Caligula in two epic films of the 1950s, The Robe ( 1953 ) and its sequel Demetrius and the Gladiators ( 1954 ).

A popular sweeping Land Reform Act, as well as American foreign aid during the 1950s, laid the foundation for Taiwan's economic success, becoming one of the Four Asian Tigers.

* The Chords ( U. S .), 1950s American doo wop group

The series ' art direction centers on American music and counterculture, especially the beat and jazz movements of the 1940s – 1960s and the early rock and roll era of the 1950s – 1970s, which the original soundtrack by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts defines.

By the late 1950s a wave of Japanese machines forced most North American typewriter companies to cease business, but Tramiel instead turned to adding machines.

" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.

David Janssen ( March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980 ) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive ( 1963 – 1967 ), the starring role in the 1950s hit detective series Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( 1957 – 60 ), and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.

Over the show's nine-year run, the fortunes of the Ricardos mirror that of the archetypal 1950s American Dream.

Sullivan, like many American entertainers, was pulled into the Cold War fervor of the late 1940s and 1950s.

John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governments of India during the 1950s, an intimate of Nehru who served as the American ambassador from 1961 to 1963, was a particularly harsh critic of Mountbatten in this regard.

Eli Herschel Wallach ( born December 7, 1915 ) is an American film, television and stage actor who gained fame in the late 1950s.

The French New Wave filmmakers such as Jean Luc Godard and François Truffaut and their American counterparts such as Andy Warhol and John Cassavetes also pushed the limits of editing technique during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s.

The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the " classic period " of American film noir.

During the 1950s and 60s, Afghanistan was able to use the Russian and American need for allies during the Cold War as a way to receive economic assistance from both countries.

Although he is known today for his performances in Singin ' in the Rain and An American in Paris, he was a dominant force in Hollywood musical films from the mid 1940s until this art form fell out of fashion in the late 1950s.

Category: 1950s American animated television series

Notable names in mid-century modern design include Adrian Frutiger, designer of the typefaces Univers and Frutiger ; Paul Rand, who, from the late 1930s until his death in 1996, took the principles of the Bauhaus and applied them to popular advertising and logo design, helping to create a uniquely American approach to European minimalism while becoming one of the principal pioneers of the subset of graphic design known as corporate identity ; and Josef Müller-Brockmann, who designed posters in a severe yet accessible manner typical of the 1950s and 1970s era.

The Greenwich Village of the 1950s and 1960s was at the center of Jane Jacobs's book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which defended it and similar communities, while critiquing common urban renewal policies of the time.

Mahalia Jackson's 1947 version received significant radio airplay, and as her popularity grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she often sang it at public events such as concerts at Carnegie Hall.

The subspace radio, best known today from Star Trek and named for the method used in the series for achieving faster-than-light travel, was the most commonly used name for such a faster-than-light communicator in the science fiction of the 1930s to the 1950s.

Freed is commonly referred to as the " father of rock and roll " due to his promotion of the music and his introduction of the phrase " rock and roll " on radio in the early 1950s.

During World War II and through the 1950s, high frequency (" short wave ") radio was widely used for military and diplomatic communication, and could be intercepted at great distances.

In the mid-to-late 1950s, the term radio engineering gradually gave way to the name electronic engineering.

The amateur radio slang referred to creatively tinkering to improve performance as “ hacking ” already in the 1950s.

In the meantime, almost all Dutch radio broadcasting organizations ( followed by television broadcasters in the 1950s ) established their headquarters in Hilversum and provided a source of continuing economic growth.

He was a program director and announcer at a radio station in Connecticut in the 1950s, and later worked in various markets around the U. S., including Phoenix ( KRIZ ), Miami ( WFUN ) and Seattle ( KJR ).

Much early commercial radio was completely freeform ; this changed drastically with the payola scandals of the 1950s.

From the 1930s through the late 1950s, " Pepsi-Cola Hits The Spot " was the most commonly used slogan in the days of old radio, classic motion pictures, and later television.

The first quasars were discovered with radio telescopes in the late 1950s.

Category: 1950s American radio programs

The industry expanded very rapidly with the advent of television in the 1950s and the age of highly produced serial radio shows ended.

* Techniques known since the 1940s and used in military communication systems since the 1950s " spread " a radio signal over a wide frequency range several magnitudes higher than minimum requirement.

The Corfu General Hospital was also constructed ; electricity was introduced to the villages in the 1950s, the radio substation of Hellenic Radio in Corfu was inaugurated in March 1957, and television was introduced in the 1960s, with internet connections in 1995.

This juvenile novel inspired Joseph Greene of Grosset & Dunlap to develop the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet comic books, television series, radio show, comic strip, and novels that were popular in the early 1950s.

In the early 1950s the Cambridge Interferometer mapped the radio sky to produce the famous 2C and 3C surveys of radio sources.

Binge's best known composition is probably Elizabethan Serenade ( 1951 ), which was used by the British Broadcasting Corporation as the theme for the popular 1950s series, " Music Tapestry ," and as the play-out for the British Forces Network radio station, and for which he won an Ivor Novello Award.

He founded his own church in California in the mid-1940s, and he had a daily radio broadcast in California during the 1950s and 1960s.

" What's the story on the radio payola scandal of the 1950s ?.

With the advent of television in the 1950s, however, radio drama lost some of its popularity, and in some countries, has never regained large audiences.

After a number of discoveries were made in the 1950s and 1960s in radio astronomy, astronomers realized the information available outside of the visible wavelength range, and modern infrared astronomy was established.

The success of radio astronomy during the 1950s and 1960s, combined with the improvement of infrared detector technology, prompted more astronomers to take notice, and infrared astronomy became well established as a subfield of astronomy.