For a brief period in the late 1950s Orbison made his living at Acuff-Rose, a songwriting firm concentrating mainly on country music.

Since the 1950s most mirror makers have an aluminum coating applied by a thin-film deposition process ( work that has to be done by a firm specializing in the process ).

Engineering Research Associates, commonly known as ERA, was a pioneering computer firm from the 1950s.

* Engineering Research Associates, a computer firm from the 1950s

It revived ruing the 1950s and 1960s, as chicken farming emerged as a firm economic base for expansion, and when a number of retirees settled there.

The firm expanded internationally during the 1950s, opening plants in Mexico, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Jackson continued to record until the mid 1950s, but as musical tastes changed began working for a catering firm in Washington, D. C.

However, there is no firm evidence of this and Puddletown was certainly still called Piddletown into the 1950s.

Gus Levy joined the firm in the 1950s as a securities trader, which started a trend at Goldman where there would be two powers generally vying for supremacy, one from investment banking and one from securities trading.

Standard Gauge also was revived in the United States in the 1950s by the small firm of McCoy Manufacturing, who produced trains of original design well into the 1990s.

Provel cheese was developed by the St. Louis firm Costa Grocery in the 1950s and is made in Wisconsin primarily for the St. Louis market.

Lima Locomotive Works was an American firm that manufactured railroad locomotives from the 1870s through the 1950s.

In the 1950s, the second block of PKN Orlen was formed, Petrochemia Płock, a state firm in charge of the refineries in Płock and grew to become the largest complex of its kind in Poland.

In California in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Whitaker and Baxter established and grew the first true consulting firm, Campaigns, Inc., which focused exclusively on political campaigns.

The early 1950s were quite troublesome, due to economic problems, but in 1953 it was bought by Lanerossi, a woolen firm from Schio, with the side being renamed Lanerossi Vicenza.

The 1966 Abarth 1000SP barchetta was a successful race car, and in 2007 the car design firm Carrozzeria Bertone celebrated its 95th anniversary with the Fiat Panda-based Fiat Barchetta Bertone, an " open-topped strictly two-seater sports car that calls to mind the Italian racing cars of the 1950s.

A local architectural engineering firm has been operational since the 1950s.

John Pile, a designer who worked for Nelson in the 1950s, commented about this practice ; " George's attitude was that it was okay for individual designers to be given credit in trade publications, but for the consumer world, the credit should always be to the firm, not the individual.

In the 1950s, Rogers joined the law firm of Arnold, Fortas, & Porter ( now Arnold & Porter ) and was involved in the successful legal defense of Owen Lattimore, the scholar of East Asia accused of being a key Soviet spy.

Scalextric is a toy brand for a range of slot car racing sets which first appeared in the late 1950s, as a creation of British firm Minimodels.

The firm was founded in 1946 when six partners — including Henry Friendly — from the firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland ( which became Dewey Ballantine in the 1950s and which subsequently became Dewey & LeBoeuf before the latter filed for bankruptcy in New York on May 28, 2012 ) left Root, Clark to found a firm which they initially called " Cleary, Friendly, Gottlieb & Steen.

In the 1950s, the firm outgrew its New Court headquarters and took up space in nearby Chetwynd House.

However, low pay for such illustrations led Cartier into employment as a draftsman for an engineering firm during the 1950s.

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

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

If the air mass is colder than the ground below it, it is labeled k. If the air mass is warmer than the ground below it, it is labeled w. While air mass identification was originally used in weather forecasting during the 1950s, climatologists began to establish synoptic climatologies based on this idea in 1973.

( This Coronet Records should not be confused with either the Australia – base Coronet Records or the late 1950s New York – based budget label Coronet Records.

This was the Junior / F12 series based on a modern concept from the late 1950s.

The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II, Wilfred Winkenbach devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the 1950s, in which each player selected a team of professional golfers and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end of the tournament would win.

Jon Arbuckle came from a coffee commercial from the 1950s, and Odie was based on a car dealership commercial written by Jim Davis, which featured Odie the Village Idiot.

* Eugene Louis Facciuto ( aka " Luigi "), an accomplished dancer who, after suffering a crippling automobile accident in the 1950s, created a new style of jazz dance based on the warm-up exercises he invented to circumvent his physical handicaps.

The " distinctive shape " set, based on traditional schematics, is used for simple drawings, and derives from MIL-STD-806 of the 1950s and 1960s.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Shanghai became an industrial center and center for radical leftism ; the leftist Jiang Qing and her three cohorts, together the Gang of Four, were based in the city.

He credited the graphic coverage of violence by San Antonio news outlets as one inspiration for the film and based elements of the plot on serial killer Ed Gein in 1950s Wisconsin ; Gein inspired other horror films such as Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ).

The Nation of Trinidad and Tobago has enjoyed a thriving economy ( which is based on energy and oil ) from recent oil finds ( 48 million barrels ) to oil finds dating back to the 1950s.

After the war, Boosey and Hawkes also produced a " Reporter " tape recorder in the early 1950s using magnetic tape, rather than wire, which was based on German wartime technology.

The architect Eero Saarinen, based in Birmingham, Michigan, created one of the early master plans for North Campus and designed several of its buildings in the 1950s, including the Earl V. Moore School of Music Building.

Although the first computer games appeared in the 1950s, they were based around vector displays, not analog video.

The late 1950s and 1960s also brought some more thoughtful big war films like Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood ( 1962 ), David Lean's Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) as well as a fashion for all-star epics based on battles which were often quasi-documentary in style and filmed in Europe where extras and production costs were cheaper.

These were based on lip syncs of the classic recordings of the 1950s.

2D computer graphics started in the 1950s, based on vector graphics devices.

Some garments were created from fabrics based on these fibers, such as women's hosiery from nylon, but it was not until the introduction of polyester into the fiber marketplace in the early 1950s that the market for cotton came under threat.

Starting in the 1950s, Preminger's reputation rose to the point that he was commissioned to direct a number of prestigious projects with A-list casts and based on successful novels or stage works.

The futuristic turbine cars are based on 1960s car models like Rover P6, Citroën DS19 and Studebaker Avanti, and futuristic buildings represent modern architecture of the 1950s.

By the early 1950s, the USAF decided that high velocity alone might not be sufficient to ensure target destruction and tested 20 mm and 27 mm alternatives based on the. 60 caliber cartridge.

The strong industrial and agricultural development that did occur throughout the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s was based on Portuguese development plans, and also included British and South African investment.

Statistically, Portuguese Mozambique's whites were indeed wealthier and more skilled than the black indigenous majority, but the late 1950s, the 1960s and the early 1970s, were being testimony of a gradual change based in new socioeconomic developments and equalitarian policies regarding underprivileged rural black communities.

* The tarte Tropézienne is a tart of pastry cream ( crème pâtissière ) invented by a St. Tropez pastry chef named Alexandre Micka in the 1950s, based on a recipe he brought from his native Poland.