In radars of the 1950s these were single target tracking devices using a nutating horn as part of the antenna.

Dribbling only became a major part of the game around the 1950s, as manufacturing improved the ball shape.

Gil J. Wolman developed cut-up techniques as part of his lettrist practice in the early 1950s.

The upright bass remained an integral part of pop lineups throughout the 1950s, as the new genre of rock and roll was built largely upon the model of rhythm and blues, with strong elements also derived from jazz, country, and bluegrass.

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.

The population grew steadily while Georgia was part of the Soviet Union and during the first years of independence, rising from less than 4 million in the 1950s to a peak of 5. 5 million in 1992.

In addition to the new episodes, the classic 1950s and 1960s shorts were re-run as part of the series, but with newly recorded soundtracks, with the voices re-recorded and the original music replaced by Jerry Gerber's score from the 1988 series.

In the early 1950s the gasoline Gasifier unit was developed, where part on cold weather starts raw gasoline was diverted to the unit where part of the gas was burned causing the other part to become a hot vapor sent directly to the intake valve manifold.

In the 1950s and 1960s, much soil was lost when vast tracts of Kazakhstan's prairies were plowed under as part of Khrushchev's Virgin Lands agricultural project.

Since the 1950s, manga has steadily become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry, representing a ¥ 406 billion market in Japan in 2007 ( approximately $ 3. 6 billion ) and ¥ 420 billion ($ 5. 5 billion ) in 2009.

point to a joint-venture between what was then Decca, later Racal Avionics, now part of Thales Group, at Shannon Corner and a Korean chaebol in the 1950s as the start of the community.

After World War II, racing recommenced in the 1950s and the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring again became the main venue for the German Grand Prix as part of the Formula One World Championship ( with the exception of 1959, when it was held on the AVUS in Berlin ).

Parts of the Kommon-ha, the Honmon-Shu, eventually became part of Nichren Shu in the 1950s.

" Postmodernist " describes part of a movement ; " Postmodern " places it in the period of time since the 1950s, making it a part of contemporary history.

The Forty Fiddlers was formed in the 1950s to promote the traditional fiddle style, which is a vibrant part of local culture today.

Some clothing and mens hairstyles had influences from the 1950s, especially in the first part of the decade.

In part due to the efforts of Balthasar and Jean Daniélou in publicising his thought, by the 1950s Gregory was the subject of much serious theological research, with a critical edition of his work published ( Gregorii Nysseni Opera ), and the founding of the International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa.

The idea rose to notability in modern linguistics with theorists such as Noam Chomsky and Richard Montague, developed in the 1950s to 1970s, as part of the " Linguistics Wars ".

The late 1950s also saw Ella Fitzgerald record her Duke Ellington Songbook with Ellington and his orchestra — a recognition that Ellington's songs had now become part of the cultural canon known as the ' Great American Songbook '.

Starting from the 1950s the region has enjoyed prosperous growth, thanks in part to its special autonomy from the central Italian government.

The United States issued several nuclear threats against the People's Republic of China in the 1950s to force the evacuation of outlying islands and the cessation of attacks against Quemoy and Matsu, part of Republic of China.

Bayesian inference techniques have been a fundamental part of computerized pattern recognition techniques since the late 1950s.

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

A popular sweeping Land Reform Act, as well as American foreign aid during the 1950s, laid the foundation for Taiwan's economic success, becoming one of the Four Asian Tigers.

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.

Thalidomide () is a sedative drug introduced in the late 1950s that was used to treat morning sickness and to aid sleep.

The Soviet Union provided considerable economic aid and training during the 1950s.

Later in the 1950s and 1960s, also France, Spain and Portugal started to build motorways largely with the aid of concessions, allowing rapid development of this infrastructure without massive State debts.

This bias toward rebuilding major industries, " combined with unprecedentedly large amounts of aid from the Soviet bloc, pushed the economy forward at world-beating growth rates in the 1950s and 1960s ".

Oral histories, particularly strong on the Second World War, also cover topics as diverse as first aid in the depression of the 1930s, setting up a division in Zanzibar in the 1950s and the work of a welfare officer in the Gulf War of 1991.

At the beginning of the 1950s, US military aid formed the core of the country's armed forces.

Generative grammars can be described and compared with the aid of the Chomsky hierarchy proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s.

" TACAN " is a radio navigation beacon that helps military aircrew identify their location and determine their flight path, in the 1950s and 1960s an indispensable aid when traversing the vast Canadian wilderness landscape.

During the late 1950s through 1970s, before in-the-ear aids became common ( and in an era when thick-rimmed eyeglasses were popular ), people who wore both glasses and hearing aids frequently chose a type of hearing aid that was built into the

In the Tongass National Forest, in the 1950s, in part to aid in Japanese recovery from World War II, the US Forest Service set up long term contracts with two pulp mills: the Ketchikan Pulp Company ( KPC ) and the Alaska Pulp Company ( APC ).

Later in the 1950s, he published two more books about China: Random Notes on Red China ( 1957 ), a research aid for scholars containing previously unused China material ; and Journey to the Beginning ( 1958 ), an autobiographical account of events prior to 1949.

Starting in the 1950s, these beacons are generally being replaced by the VOR system, in which the bearing to the navigational aid is measured from the signal itself, therefore no specialized antenna with moving parts is required.

Amphetamine was also used legally as an aid to slimming and also as a thymoleptic before being phased out by the appearance of newer agents in the 1950s.

They were also supplied as part of U. S. military aid to Pakistan in the 1950s and served in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

With the decline of British Communist Party membership in the late 1950s financial aid to the label began to dry up and, under director Gerry Sharp, they were forced to pursue an entrepreneurial strategy to survive.

The regime was greatly helped, however, by a postwar boom which gathered pace through the 1950s, fuelled by rice exports and U. S. aid.

In the 1950s, it also again came to the aid of the cattle industry by developing techniques for destroying screwworms which were plaguing cattle in Texas and Central America.

During the 1950s, many countries developed large civil-defense programs designed to aid the populace in the event of nuclear warfare.

Originally a series of unformed tracks linking pastoral holdings, the route was developed as a gravel road in the 1950s to aid the beef industry.

This was done with the aid of a woman known as Nadia — the head of the NKVD, Stalin's mistress and evidently a member of the Brotherhood herself as early as the 1950s.