The training was the result of a " Chile Project " organised in the 1950s by the US State Department and funded by the Ford Foundation, which aimed at influencing Chilean economic thinking.

Juan Gabriel Valdés, Chile's foreign minister in the 1990s, described the Chile Project as " a striking example of an organized transfer of ideology from the United States to a country within its direct sphere of influence ... the education of these Chileans derived from a specific project designed in the 1950s to influence the development of Chilean economic thinking.

From the 1950s to 1970s several incidents involving the Chilean and Argentine Navy occurred in the waters of the Beagle Channel, for example the 1958 Snipe incident, the 1967 Cruz del Sur incident and the shelling of Quidora the same year.

* The novel Jemmy Button by the Chilean writer Benjamin Subercaseaux was published in the 1950s and translated from Spanish by Mary and Fred del Villar ( New York: The Macmilllan Company, 1954 ).

The roots of Chilean rock go back to La Nueva Ola Chilena ( or Chilean New Wave ), which refers to the 1950s and 1960s.

During the 1950s, under the club presidency of Antonio Laban, the services of Chilean striker Jorge Robledo of Newcastle United were obtained.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, as the Head of the Department of Spanish and later the Director of Summer Courses, Gonzalo was instumental in establishing a number of workshops that helped define earlier generations of Chilean writers and which brought international writers to Chile to participate in these events and congresses.

Some military and medical aid was also supplied to North Korea and North Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s.

" The early 1950s literature transformed blitzkrieg into a historical military doctrine, which carried the signature of Liddell Hart and Heinz Guderian.

Although conservatism in politics was strong during the 1950s and Eisenhower generally shared these sentiments, his administration concerned itself mostly with foreign affairs ( an area that the career military president was more knowledgeable about ) and pursued a hands-off domestic policy.

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.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Lebanon never spent more than 4 % of its GNP on the military budget.

Beginning in the 1950s, political history in Maldives was largely influenced by the British military presence in the islands.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Afghanistan purchased moderate quantities of Soviet weapons to keep the military up to date.

Although developmental debates took place within the Workers ' Party of Korea in the 1950s, North Korea, like all the postwar communist states, undertook massive state investment in heavy industry, state infrastructure and military strength, neglecting the production of consumer goods.

During the 1950s, the Panamanian military began to challenge the oligarchy's political hegemony.

In 1947, King Michael I was forced by the Communists to abdicate and leave the country, Romania was proclaimed a republic, and remained under direct military and economic control of the USSR until the late 1950s.

Therefore the potential integration of aircraft with the invulnerability of the ballistic missile was an intriguing prospect to 1950s military planners.

*" Traditional taekwondo " typically refers to the martial art as it was established in the 1950s and 1960s in the South Korean military, and in various civilian organisations, including schools and universities.

During the 1950s the first large scale, mass produced board games depicting military conflicts were published.

During the 1950s over 100 incidents were recorded of military or civilian aircraft being lost or damaged due to unforeseen flutter events.

* 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.

Developed during the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely applied as the political and military guiding ideology of the Communist Party of China ( CPC ).

* Model B5 – Auster AOP9 – 1950s military air observation aircraft

During the 1950s to the late 1960s, Pashtuns were promoted to higher positions within the Pakistani government and military.

After the war, Lawrence sought to maintain strong government and military ties at his lab, which became incorporated into the new system of Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC ) ( now Department of Energy ( DOE )) National Laboratories, but in the early 1950s set out that the lab's purpose would be primarily non-classified research.

* 1950s ( early ): NATO adopted sarin as a standard chemical weapon, and both the U. S. S. R and the United States produced sarin for military purposes.

The Royal Naval dockyard and the attendant military garrison were closed during the 1950s.

In the late 1950s, the KMZ plant in Ukraine took over the task of supplying the military and the Irbit Motorcycle Works ( IMZ ) began to concentrate on making bikes for domestic consumers.

The fruit machine was employed in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s during a campaign to eliminate all homosexuals from the civil service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ), and the military.

In the early 1950s, France and Israel maintained close political and military ties as common enemies of Pan-Arab nationalism.

A leading designer, builder, manufacturer, seller and exporter of cash registers in the 1950s until the 1970s was London-based ( and later Brighton-based ) Gross Cash Registers Ltd., founded by brothers Sam and Henry Gross.

Murray's ideas proved highly influential over the ideas of Gerald Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ), an English Wiccan who founded the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca in the 1950s before authoring the books Witchcraft Today ( 1954 ) and The Meaning of Witchcraft ( 1959 ).

One 1941 property from the Waco, Texas-based Alamo Plaza Courts chain, the first US motel chain ( founded 1929, expansion stopped with the departure of the chain's founders in the 1950s ), still stands on U. S. Route 190 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but has been declining steadily since a change of ownership in the mid-1980s.

Many of the ideas in Klein's book derive from the influence of the Situationists, an art / political group founded in the late 1950s.

The training college was founded in 1880 and by the 1950s was called the Manchester College of Housecraft.

The Transcendental Meditation movement ( also referred to as Transcendental Meditation ( TM ), " Maharishi's worldwide movement ", and the Transcendental Meditation organization ) is a world-wide organization, sometimes characterised as a neo-Hindu new religious movement, and also as non-religious, founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the 1950s.

The shop, from which Jones bought records as a schoolboy in the 1950s and early 1960s, was founded in 1894 and is listed in the Guinness World Records as the oldest record shop in the world.

It was founded in the 1950s.

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.

During the 1950s, mayor Abba Hushi made a special effort to encourage authors and poets to move to the city, and founded the Haifa Theatre, a repertory theater, the first municipal theater founded in the country.

The town, whose name would translate to English as Academy Town, was founded in the 1950s by the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Rosenborg's youth team has been one of the best in the country ever since the club was founded and an especially talented generation of youth players during the 1950s would grow up to form the basis for the first team's success in the 1960s and onwards.

In the early 1950s, Gorey, with a group of recent Harvard alumni including Alison Lurie ( 1947 ), John Ashbery ( 1949 ), and Donald Hall ( 1951 ), Frank O ' Hara, amongst others, founded the Poets ' Theatre in Cambridge, which was supported by Harvard faculty members John Ciardi and Thornton Wilder.

Originating within the Gardnerian tradition of the Craft, the first Book of Shadows was created by the pioneering Wiccan Gerald Gardner sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and which he utilised first in his Bricket Wood coven and then in other covens which he founded in following decades.

The former Eastern Baptist Seminary operated in Somerset during the 1950s and 1960s, having been founded by the theologian I. K. Cross.

Terrytown was founded in 1949 by Terry Carpenter, a successful Scottsbluff business man and a famous Nebraska state senator in the 1950s and 1960s.

By the 1950s, their popularity was declining rapidly and a group of musicians and musicologists founded organizations like Istituto de Martino and Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano to help preserve folk cultures.

In 1970, Polydor acquired the Hong Kong-based Diamond Records which was owned and founded by the local Portuguese merchant Ren da Silva in the late 1950s.

In the early 1950s, she founded the magazine China Reconstructs, later renamed China Today.

The Order of the Silent Brotherhood was an offshoot of the Aryan Nations, an organization founded in the early 1970s by Richard G. Butler ; the latter had since the 1950s been associated with another antisemitic group, called the Church of Jesus Christ Christian.

The Trail's origins, however, date to the 1950s with the dream of Milwaukee native Ray Zillmer, who in 1958 founded the Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation ( now the Ice Age Trail Alliance, Inc .) with the goal of establishing a National Park in Wisconsin running the route of the last glaciation.

He was an early member of the avant garde Gutai group founded in the 1950s, and his works are in museum collections such as those of the Tate Gallery and the Tate Modern ( in both London and Liverpool ) and the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe, Japan.

While there, in 1961, he was recruited to become a member of Fatah, founded by Yasser Arafat and 5 other Palestinians in Kuwait in the late 1950s.