This pen was widely known as the rocket in the U. S. into the late 1950s.

* U. S. Army Combat Arms Regimental System a 1950s reorganisation of the regiments of the US Army

While many older Soviet and European cars remain in service in Cuba, they are largely eclipsed by the island's great 1950s Cadillacs, Packards, De Sotos and similar products from one of the most ornate styling periods in U. S. auto history.

For much of the 1950s the threat of Communist invasion of Taiwan was very real, and required the U. S. Navy to safe guard the Taiwan Straits.

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

Several U. S. court rulings confirmed this understanding, including the 1900 Supreme Court decision in Paquete Habana, a late 1950s decision in Reid v. Covert, and a lower court ruling in 1986 in Garcia-Mir v. Meese.

Though this method of serving beer did not take hold in the U. K. until the late 1950s, it did become the favoured method in the rest of Europe, where it is known by such terms as en pression.

As early as the 1940s, scientists in the U. S. had begun expressing concern over possible hazards associated with DDT, and in the 1950s the government began tightening some of the regulations governing its use.

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.

The 1950s saw a boom in franchise chains in conjunction with the development of the U. S. Interstate Highway System.

The U. S. Navy began experiments with hydrofoils in the mid 1950s by funding a sailing vessel that used hydrofoils to reach speeds in the 30 mph range.

In the 1950s and 1960s, development began on Anti-Ballistic Missile systems by both the U. S. and USSR ; these systems were restricted by the 1972 ABM treaty.

He also served on special assignments for Jewish soldiers in the U. S. Army in the 1950s, receiving the simulated rank of Brigadier General for these missions.

This defense was first used by U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.

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 ).

The US Navy and U. S. Air Force began deploying guided missiles in the early 1950s, most famous being the US Navy's AIM-9 Sidewinder and USAF's AIM-4 Falcon.

Brando then took a variety of roles in the 1950s: portraying Napoleon in Désirée, Sky Masterson in the musical Guys and Dolls ; Sakini, a Japanese interpreter for the U. S. Army in postwar Japan in The Teahouse of the August Moon ; as a United States Air Force officer in Sayonara, and a German officer in The Young Lions.

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.

Also in the 1950s and 1960s, 40 % of all U. S. pesticide exports went to Central America.

* Rex Humbard ( 1919 – 2007 ) The first major TV evangelist ( 1950s, 1960s & 1970s ), and at one time had the largest TV audience of an evangelist in the U. S.

An attempt to reunite the United Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. with the Presbyterian Church in the United States in the late 1950s failed when the latter church was unwilling to accept centralization.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) and police departments kept lists of known homosexuals, their favored establishments, and friends ; the U. S. Post Office kept track of addresses where material pertaining to homosexuality was mailed.

Taiwan has transformed itself from a recipient of U. S. aid in the 1950s and early 1960s to an aid donor and major foreign investor, with investments primarily centered in Asia.

An alternate form of electric propulsion, the Hall effect thruster was studied independently in the U. S. and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.

During the 1950s, he aided U. S. Congressman James Devereux in four successive winning election bids.

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.

During the 1950s there were as many as 25,000 schools in the Congo.

In the 1950s and mid-1960s anthropology tended increasingly to model itself after the natural sciences.

Modern use of AAC began in the 1950s with systems for users who had lost the use of speech following surgical procedures.

Production began in the Cuanza basin in the 1950s, in the Congo basin in the 1960s, and in the exclave of Cabinda in 1968.

Korzybzki was well received in numerous disciplinary realms, as evidenced by the positive reactions from leading persons in the sciences and humanities in the 1940s and 1950s.

In the 1950s, many of them were retrospectively patched together into novels, or " fixups " as he called them, a term which entered the vocabulary of science fiction criticism.

In the 1950s, the development of improved particle accelerators and particle detectors allowed scientists to study the impacts of atoms moving at high energies.

Angst was probably first discussed in relation to popular music in the mid-to late 1950s that was popular amongst the nuclear disarmament and antiwar protester subculture.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

Small-scale tourism has existed since the 1950s.

Farming of abalone began in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Japan and China.

Victoria has had an active abalone fishery since the late 1950s.

Up until the 1950s, Abensberg and the surrounding villages contained a number of graves of victims of a Death March in the Spring of 1945 from the Hersbruck sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp, who were either murdered by the SS or died of exhaustion.

Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.

From the 1950s Federico Brito Figueroa was the founder of a new Venezuelan historiography based largely on the ideas of the Annales School.

Electric guitars, most notably the Fender Stratocaster and Fender Telecaster, have been built with alder bodies since the 1950s.

A poignant sense of nostalgia accompanied the recordings of several gospel and blues singers in the 1940s and 1950s who used the song to remember their grandparents, traditions, and family roots.

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.

ALGOL ( short for ALGOrithmic Language ) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM, in textbooks, and academic works for the next 30 years and more.

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

The overuse of antibacterials, like penicillin and erythromycin, have been associated with emerging antibacterial resistance since the 1950s.

Prior to the 1950s, Alberta was a primarily agricultural economy, based on the export of wheat, beef, and a few other commodities.

* Maila Nurmi, aka 1950s TV horror hostess Vampira and co-star of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space attended Astoria High School in the late 1930s.