The modern form of AAS was largely developed during the 1950s by a team of Australian chemists.

During the 1950s, Holden dominated the Australian car market.

* Walkabout magazine, a 1950s Australian travel magazine

Early hotel closing times began being wound back from the 1950s, with the last Australian state, South Australia, doing so in 1967.

Variant 7, as sung in New Zealand in the 1940s and 1950s, similar to the Australian version above in its use of " Go-balls ".

No-dig gardening was also promoted by Australian Esther Deans in the 1970s, and American gardener Ruth Stout advocated a " permanent " garden mulching technique in Gardening Without Work and no-dig methods in the 1950s and 1960s.

Since the 1950s, the satirical character creations of Barry Humphries have included housewife " gigastar " Edna Everage and " Australian cultural attaché " Les Patterson, whose interests include boozing, chasing women and flatulence.

Improved vehicular access to the High Country enabled ski-resort villages to be constructed at Thredbo and Guthega in the 1950s by ex-Snowy Scheme workers who realised the potential for expansion of the Australian ski industry.

Central Outback | Australian Landscape 1950s

) His descendant, Alice, is the reigning Queen in the 1950s when three Australian children visit the island.

In the 1950s, he had a regular role as an Australian lodger in the BBC radio comedy series Hancock's Half Hour.

Kiernan is correct to observe that until the 1950s virtually all Australians supported the White Australian policy, that Calwell's views were entirely within the political mainstream at that time, and Calwell believed himself to be free of personal prejudice against people of other races.

* Rip, originally HMQS Paluma, an Australian gunboat scrapped in the 1950s

However, the New Zealand Labour Party never split as the Australian Labor Party did in the 1950s.

In the 1950s, a popular Australian radio version of Biggles was made under licence.

The SSO, like all the other major symphony orchestras in Australia, was funded by the federal government as a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from the 1950s until the mid 2000s.

In Australia, the practice was widespread during the 1950s, where Communists battled against right-wing ' Groupers ', for control of Australian trade unions.

In 1969, three more institutions were merged with WAIT: The Western Australian School of Mines ( originally opened in 1902 ), the Muresk Agricultural College ( dating from 1926 ) and schools of physiotherapy and occupational therapy in operation since the 1950s at Shenton Park.

During the 1950s, Ford's Australian sales were faltering due to the popularity of the Holden which did not have an effective competitor.

Utilizing extensive archival research, and broad consultation, including 27 original interviews with key industry players involved with the AFI since the 1950s ( including Dr George Miller, Phillip Adams and Barry Jones ), the book makes a major contribution to Australian screen history through the testimony of those who were there, observers and historians, who offer readers an understanding of Australian film history from a never before told AFI ‘ insiders ’ perspective.

The Australian Flying Saucer Bureau ( AFSB ) and the Australian Flying Saucer Research Society ( AFSRS ) were the earliest UFO groups established in Australia, with both being founded in the early 1950s.

From the late 1950s until the early 1970s, Charlton remained a mainstay of the Second Division before relegation to the Third Division in 1972 caused the team's support to drop, and even a promotion in 1975 back to the second division did little to re-invigorate the team's support and finances.

At the time, Volkswagen lacked an internal research and design division, and Porsche was doing the bulk of the company's development work, per a deal that went back to the 1950s ; in keeping with this history, Porsche was contracted to develop a new sporting vehicle with the caveat that this vehicle must work with an existing VW / Audi I4 engine.

Some UA films of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s fell into the public domain, to be picked up by Republic Pictures ( today part of Paramount Pictures ) or studios like Westchester Films ( successor to Castle Hill Productions ), and what will soon become the DreamWorks Classics division of DreamWorks Animation ( in most cases with distribution by Warner Bros .).

William Frederick Friedman ( September 24, 1891 – November 12, 1969 ) was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signals Intelligence Service ( SIS ) in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s.

Other executives within MCA were Lawrence R. Barnett, who ran the agency's live acts division during its glory agency years in the 1950s and 1960s, and Ned Tanen, head of Universal Pictures.

The Columbus, Ohio division of North American Aviation was instrumental in the exclusive development and production of North American's A-5 Vigilante, an advanced high speed bomber that would see significant use as a Naval reconnaissance aircraft during the Vietnam War, the OV-10 Bronco, the first aircraft specifically designed for forward air control ( FAC ), and counter-insurgency ( COIN ) duties, and the T-2 Buckeye Naval trainer, which would serve from the late 1950s until 2008 and be flown in training by virtually every Naval Aviator and Naval Flight Officer in the US Navy and US Marine Corps for four decades.

Autair started as a division of Autair Helicopters, a helicopter operator established in the early 1950s.

Sometimes, Mercury was presented as a performance division of more mainstay Ford products, while at other times, it was meant to match sales with Detroit crosstown rivals Buick, Oldsmobile and Chrysler during the 1950s through 1980s.

Its importance declined with the replacement of steam with diesel locomotives in the early 1950s ; the division point was removed with the merger of the Erie into the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad in 1960.

His friendship with Ed Murrow, one of the leading lights in the CBS news division ( and by then a vice president of CBS ), suffered during the 1950s over the hard-hitting tone of the Murrow-hosted See It Now series.

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.

Nevertheless, the resulting influx of manpower revitalised the CMF to the point that during the 1950s the division experienced a remarkable level of manning and resources that saw many units achieve full strength, with full equipment allocations.

Its establishment occurred during the " Coloured Vote " Constitutional Crisis of the 1950s, and the division of the Torch Commando on the matter of mixed membership.

Although best remembered for the S gauge trains of the 1950s that it made as a division of the A. C. Gilbert Company, American Flyer was initially an independent company whose origins date back nearly a half century earlier.

The division was reactivated in the early 1950s, but not sent to Korea.

In the early 1950s the Union undertook, however, to provide one armoured division for active service in the Middle East in the event of war in the region.

The gene was discovered in the 1950s by Y. Hirota (: ja: 廣田幸敬 ) and his colleagues in a screen for bacterial cell division mutants.

In the 1950s, Morgan W. Walker, Sr., of Alexandria, Louisiana became head of the southern division of the company.

In the 1950s, Jones played an important, if unwelcome, role in the division of orthodox Protestantism into fundamentalism and neo-evangelicalism.

From the end of World War II until 1958, most U. S .- manufactured switchblades were manufactured by Schrade ( now Schrade-Walden, Inc., a division of Imperial Knife Co., and the Colonial Knife Co. Schrade-Walden Inc. made knives under the Schrade-Walden and Edgemaster trademarks, while Colonial made a number of switchblade patterns during the 1950s under the trademark ShurSnap.

Apart from the 1987-88 season, they have not played top division football since the 1950s.

Most of the buses in the collection were built by the GMC division of General Motors, and represent the vehicles that replaced the streetcars in the Twin Cities in the 1950s.

The alkaline dry battery using the zinc / manganese dioxide chemistry was invented by Canadian engineer Lewis Urry in the 1950s while working for Union Carbide's Eveready Battery division in Cleveland, OH, building on earlier work by Edison.