Decades of mediocrity followed for the White Sox until the 1950s, when perennially competitive teams were blocked from the playoffs by the dynastic New York Yankees, with the exception of the 1959 pennant winners led by Early Wynn, Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio, and manager Al Lopez.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

Band leader Vincent Lopez hosted a radio program in the early 1950s called Shake the Maracas in which audience members competed for small prizes by playing the instrument with the orchestra.

In the early 1950s, Lopez along with Gloria Parker hosted a radio program broadcast from the Taft Hotel called Shake the Maracas in which audience members competed for small prizes by playing maracas with the orchestra.

Electrothermal AAS ( ET AAS ) using graphite tube atomizers was pioneered by Boris V. L ’ vov at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute, Russia, since the late 1950s, and further investigated by Hans Massmann at the Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy ( ISAS ) in Dortmund, Germany.

There is ample literary evidence to further substantiate that " Chicano " is a self-declaration, as a large body of Chicano literature exists with publication dates far predating the 1950s.

Two further major 1950s developments were the origins of digital sound synthesis by computer, and of algorithmic composition programs beyond rote playback.

In the 1950s, the National Park Service investigated the possibility of applying a clear plastic coating to the arch to protect it from further erosion and eventual destruction.

Without Coleman, Essendon's fortunes plummeted, and there were to be no further premierships in the 1950s.

By the early 1950s the Soviet Union had seized reparations in the form of agricultural and industrial products and demanded further heavy reparation payments.

The semantic network was developed in the late 1950s as a theory to understand human learning and developed further by Allan M. Collins and M. Ross Quillian during the early 1960s.

He further asserted that for twenty years, starting in the early 1950s, the CIA and the Defense Department conducted secret research ( notably including Project MKULTRA ) in an attempt to develop practical brainwashing techniques, and that their attempt failed.

As Cold War tensions rose still further during the 1950s, restrictions were placed on travel between the Soviet sector ( East Berlin ) and the western sectors ( West Berlin ).

They further state that the " digitalization " or digital refinement of these techniques can be found in the digital control systems of the 1940s and 1950s.

The program began in the early 1950s, was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967 and finally halted in 1973.

" Mason found numerous cans of previously " lost " Keaton films in the house in the 1950s ; the films were quickly transferred by Raymond Rohauer to safety film before the original cellulose nitrate prints further deteriorated.

Land reclamation also took 43 % of the intertidal area in China between 1950s and 2002, and there are plans to reclaim a further 45 %.

Suburbs in Canberra Central ( often referred to as North Canberra and South Canberra ) were further developed in the 1950s, and urban development in the districts of Woden Valley and Belconnen commenced in the mid and late 1960s respectively.

The introduction of roll film drove the standardization process still further so that by the 1950s only a few standard roll films were in use.

This evolved further in the 1950s.

Marijuana use was associated with the subculture, and during the 1950s, Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception further influenced views on drugs.

Although there is none of this 1950s substance on top of the ink, further tests, starting with a detailed chemical analysis, are needed to confirm whether the lines were drawn after it soaked into the parchment.

Since the 1950s, European integration has seen the development of a supranational system of governance, as its institutions move further from the concept of simple intergovernmentalism and more towards a European Superstate.

The 1950s saw the publication of two further works: Douglas Goldring's Regency portrait painter, and Kenneth Garlick's catalogue of Lawrence's paintings ( a further edition was published in 1989 ).

It can further be argued that before they finished taking Vietnam prior to the 1950s, the communist campaigns did not succeed in Southeast Asia.

High-profile examples of programme losses include many episodes of Doctor Who, The Wednesday Play, most of the seminal comedy series Not Only But Also, all of the 1950s televised Francis Durbridge serials ( further, the first two serials were never recorded ), the vast majority of the BBC's Apollo 11 Moon landing studio coverage, all but one of the 39 episodes of The First Lady, and all 147 episodes of the soap opera United !.

The definition expanded backward to include rhythm and blues groups from the mid-1950s and then even further back to include groups from the early 1950s and even the 1940s.

World War II and the economic revival of the late 1940s and 1950s drew people to better jobs in growing regional cities, and this further diminished small towns.

Following its development in the early 1950s the transistor revolutionized the field of electronics, and paved the way for smaller and cheaper radios, calculators, and computers, among other things.

The foundations for Total Football were laid by Hungary and by River Plate's La Maquina which revolutionized the sport in the 1950s, laying the tactical fundamentals of Total Football and dominating international football with the remarkable Golden Team.

During the late 1940s and early 1950s Pollock's radical approach to painting revolutionized the potential for all Contemporary art that followed him.

The development of the X-ray image intensifier by Westinghouse in the late 1940s in combination with closed circuit TV cameras in the 1950s revolutionized fluoroscopy.

Hungary revolutionized the sport in the 1950s, laying the tactical fundamentals of Total Football and dominating international football with the remarkable Golden Team which included legends like Ferenc Puskás, top goalscorer of the 20th century, whom FIFA dedicated its newest award, the Puskás Award.

The most important composer of this style was Ástor Piazzolla who revolutionized tango in the 1950s by introducing new instruments such as the saxophone and electric guitar, and who brought new forms of harmonic and melodic structure into the traditional tango ensemble.

Their campaigns for Volkswagen throughout the 1950s and 1960s were said to have revolutionized advertising.

* revolutionized bottle design in the 1950s, creating a triangular bottle

In the 1950s, the heavy influence of Norteño on the traditional music of Mexican-Americans in southern Texas gave rise to a new form of popular music, called Tejano or " Tex-Mex ", which is often influenced by American rock and swing.

Sonic anemometers, first developed in the 1950s, use ultrasonic sound waves to measure wind velocity.

In the late 1950s, sound systems, a new form of public entertainment, were developed in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica.

Gut strings provide the dark, " thumpy " sound heard on 1940s and 1950s recordings.

However, by the 1950s, jazz musicians such as Jimmy Smith began to use the organ's distinctive sound.

In the 1950s, the term high fidelity began to be used by audio manufacturers as a marketing term to describe records and equipment which were intended to provide faithful sound reproduction.

Software synthesis ' roots go back as far as the 1950s, when Max Mathews of Bell Labs wrote the MUSIC-N programming language, which was capable of non-real-time sound generation.

This also made possible a more uniform playing of notes or intonation, which would lead to a more and more " smooth " orchestral sound that would peak in the 1950s with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra and the conducting of Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic.

The sound of rock is traditionally centered around the electric guitar, which emerged in its modern form in the 1950s with the popularization of rock and roll.

Its founders Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka derived the name from sonus, the Latin word for sound, and also from the English slang word " sonny ", since they considered themselves to be " sonny boys ", a loan word into Japanese which in the early 1950s connoted smart and presentable young men.

After the nationalistic period of the 1950s Aymara and Quechuan culture became more widely accepted, and their folk music evolved into a more pop-like sound.

* The Trojan, a 1950s Jamaican sound system led by Duke Reid

Much of the equipment used by the Workshop in the earlier years of its operation in the late 1950s was semi-professional and was passed down from other departments, though two giant professional tape-recorders ( which appeared to lose all sound above 10 kHz ) made an early centrepiece.

Basie hitched his star to some of the most famous vocalists of the 1950s and 1960s, which helped keep the Big Band sound alive and added greatly to his recording catalog.

Mercury delay lines operated at about the speed of sound, so were very slow in computer terms, even by the standards of the computers of the late 1940s and 1950s.

" In fundamental ways, salsa is the preservation of the late 1950s Cuban sound.

The original format for magnetic tape sound reproduction was the reel-to-reel tape recorder, first available in the U. S. in the late 1940s but too expensive and bulky to be practical for amateur home use until well into the 1950s.

George Clinton has been, since its inception, the driving force behind the development of the P-Funk sound, having led the collective since forming The Parliaments as a doo-wop group in the late 1950s.

Paul's many hits with wife Mary Ford recording her vocals in triplicate in the 1950s produced a sound eerily similar to the harmonious blend of The Andrews Sisters.

They then spearheaded the nascent rockabilly revival, by blending the 1950s Sun Studio sound with modern punk musical elements.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s he had a string of hit records, produced by Lee Hazlewood, which were noted for their characteristically " twangy " sound, including " Rebel Rouser ", " Peter Gunn ", and " Because They're Young ".

By the 1950s, new aircraft designs routinely " broke " the sound barrier.

By the 1950s many combat aircraft could routinely break the sound barrier in level flight, although they often suffered from control problems when doing so, such as Mach tuck.

The Orioles were a successful and influential American R & B group of the late 1940s and early 1950s, one of the earliest such vocal bands who established the basic pattern for the doo-wop sound.