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

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

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

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 company continued through the 1950s and 1960s, continuing to sell health and accident policies.

However, the late 1950s and early 1960s saw the onset of a lasting transformation of the city by the tourist industry.

Water-soluble artists ' acrylic paints became commercially available in the 1950s, offered by Liquitex, with high-viscosity paints similar to those made today becoming available in the early 1960s.

Throughout the late 1950s and into the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had been developing a series of missile systems with the ability to shoot down incoming ICBM warheads.

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

He was a liberal during the conservative 1950s, only to switch to conservative during the liberal, hippie-era 1960s.

Developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s, it was deployed in the 1960s, updated in the 1990s, and eventually installed on over 200 USN surface ships, specifically cruisers, destroyers, and frigates.

The first ASROC system using the MK-112 " Matchbox " launcher, was developed in the 1950s and installed in the 1960s.

Berlin was devastated by bombing raids during World War II, and many of the buildings that had remained after the war were demolished in the 1950s and 1960s in both West and East Berlin.

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

However, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, base-stealing was brought back to prominence primarily by Luis Aparicio and Maury Wills, who broke Cobb's modern single-season record by stealing 104 bases in 1962.

British photographer Cornel Lucas made iconic images of Bardot in the 1950s and 1960s that have become representative of her public persona.

A pitching revolution would not be unprecedented — several pitches have changed the game of baseball in the past, including the slider in the 1950s and 1960s and the split-fingered fastball in the 1970s to 1990s.

After the glittering decade of the 1950s, the first tour of the 1960s proved not nearly as successful as previous ones.

Charlton became one of the famed Busby Babes, the collection of precociously talented footballers who emerged through the system at Old Trafford in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as Matt Busby set about a long-term plan of rebuilding the club after the Second World War.

Through the 1950s and into the 1960s the Liberals survived only because a handful of constituencies in rural Scotland and Wales clung to their Liberal traditions, whilst in two English towns, Bolton and Huddersfield, local Liberals and Conservatives agreed to each contest only one of the town's two seats.

He continued to tour and record through the 1950s into the early 1960s, despite the fact that Western swing's popularity, even in the Southwest, had greatly diminished.

Most breviaries published in the late 1950s and early 1960s used this " Pian Psalter ".

He continued to have hits through the rest of the 1950s and even the 1960s, including " Pretty Thing " ( 1956 ), " Say Man " ( 1959 ), and " You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover " ( 1962 ).

Transistorized CPUs during the 1950s and 1960s no longer had to be built out of bulky, unreliable, and fragile switching elements like vacuum tubes and electrical relays.

Ralph Page almost single-handedly maintained the New England tradition until it was revitalized in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly by Ted Sannella and Dudley Laufman.

According to one study, in deforested north and northwest China, the average annual precipitation decreased by one third between the 1950s and the 1980s.

The Israeli historian Omer Bartov wrote that German films of the 1950s showed the average German soldier as a heroic victim: noble, tough, brave, honourable, and patriotic while fighting hard in a senseless war for a regime that he did not care for.

In the early 1950s, diving regulators made by Siebe Gorman cost £ 15, which was an average week's salary.

GDP expanded at an average annual rate of 5. 2 % between 1966 and 1970, compared to 3. 2 % during the 1950s.

In the soaring 1950s, the rebuilding efforts for Austria lead to an average annual growth rate of more than 5 % in real terms and averaged about four point five percent through most of the 1960s.

Starting in the 1970s, a number of “ tech parks ” opened in North Stonington ’ s southeastern corner, adjacent to I-95. The dramatic growth in the town ’ s population had a direct impact on the size of the school system ; whereas in the late 1950s the average graduating class ran in the teens, by 1965 it had more than doubled to 42, and was 51 in 1968.

In the U. S. of the 1950s, there began the trend towards building oversized houses, domestic dwellings that were larger than needed, by the nuclear family ; fifty years later, in the year 2000, such a practice in conspicuous consumption resulted in people buying large houses that were double the average size required to comfortably house a nuclear family.

The average life expectancy for Tibetans rose from 35 years in 1950s to over 65 years in the 2000s .< ref > Tibet

With the continuing decline of Christianity in Britain, the FoR has lost influence, although active Christians in the UK are now probably further to the left politically, on average, than they were in the 1930s or 1950s.

The 1940s and 1950s saw average attendances for seasons regularly exceed 40, 000, coinciding with the club's peak on the field.

Many Americans continued to live in poverty throughout the 1950s, especially older people and blacks, the latter of whom continued to earn far less than whites on average in the two decades following the end of the Second World War.

Musial began the 1950s by posting a. 350 batting average before participating in the 1950 All-Star Game, where in fan balloting he was the NL's number two vote getter.

Ed Cole, Chevrolet's chief engineer in the late 1950s, defined the Impala as a " prestige car within the reach of the average American citizen.

* British enthusiasts today enjoy an extended average picking season of 75 days compared to just 33 in the 1950s.

In the early 1950s, Idaho Senator Herman Welker told Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith about Killebrew, who was hitting for an. 847 batting average for a semi-professional baseball team at the time.

Seattle industry did slightly better than the national average during the rest of the 1970s ; nonetheless the boom decades of the 1950s and 1960s had been brought to a decisive end.

In the 1950s, however, the country had been undergoing a period of above average austerity: in 1953 the car's £ 390 sticker price represented 40 week's worth of the average UK wage.

The average working woman in the 1950s earned 60 % of the average working man's salary.

By the end of the 1950s, studies such as Sherif's led to the reasonable conclusion that social influence in groups leads group members to converge on the average judgment of the individual members.

Of course, the average American filmgoer of the 1950s was not in a position to notice these cultural discrepancies, or to be aware of the actual history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands.

Attendances dropped to an average of between five and six thousand through the 1950s and 1960s, though the last ( to date ) attendance of over 10 000 occurred in 1968 when 16, 650 was the sell-out attendance for Barrow's FA Cup match against Leicester City.

Though General Electric sponsored community lighting competitions during the 1920s, it would take until the mid 1950s for the use of such lights to be adopted by average households.