During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States.

Several collectors have catalogued the songs including John Meredith whose recording in the 1950s became the basis of the collection in the National Library of Australia.

Parking nightmares had plagued the city as far back as the 1950s, the little park lacked modern amenities, and New York City, which in 1957 had lost both its National League teams ( the Dodgers and the Giants ) to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, was actively courting Reds owner Powel Crosley.

After World War II increasing encroachment on wilderness land evoked the continued resistance of conservationists, who succeeded in blocking a number of projects in the 1950s and 1960s, including the proposed Bridge Canyon Dam that would have backed up the waters of the Colorado River into the Grand Canyon National Park.

Bartov wrote no German film of the 1950s showed the deep commitment felt by many German soldiers to National Socialism, the utter ruthless way the German Army fought the war and the mindless nihilist brutality of the later Wehrmacht.

The American satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer has been rumored to have been the first to invent the gelatin shot in the 1950s while working for the National Security Agency, where he developed vodka gelatin as a way to circumvent a restriction of alcoholic beverages on base, but the claim that he was first is untrue.

Afghan National Army | Afghan army soldiers in the 1950s.

Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister from 1975 to 1984, and his Third National government responded to the crises of the 1970s by attempting to preserve the New Zealand of the 1950s.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for example, filed suits in state and federal courts in the 1950s to challenge segregation laws.

Historic areas such as Independence National Historical Park located in Old City and Society Hill were renovated during the reformist mayoral era of the 1950s through the 1980s.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

Cattle were taken out of Kosciuszko National Park in NSW during the 1950s and 1960s due to concerns about the effect of grazing on water quality for the Snowy River Scheme.

Other interesting museums include the Folk Art Museum, National Struggle Museum ( witnessing the rebellion against the British administration in the 1950s ), Cyprus Ethnological Museum ( House of Dragoman Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios, 18th century ) and the Handicrafts Centre.

The film has been cited among critics as one of the best of the 1950s, and has been selected by the United States National Film Registry for preservation in the Library of Congress.

The Bolivian Trotskyist party ( Partido Obrero Revolucionario, POR ) became a mass party in the period of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and together with other groups played a central role during and immediately after the period termed the Bolivian National Revolution.

After the war, Lawrence sought to maintain strong government and military ties at his lab, which became incorporated into the new system of Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC ) ( now Department of Energy ( DOE )) National Laboratories, but in the early 1950s set out that the lab's purpose would be primarily non-classified research.

These include Jonathan Miller's 1982 production for the English National Opera which is set amongst the Mafia in New York City's Little Italy during the 1950s and Doris Dorrie's 2005 production for the Bavarian State Opera where the Court of Mantua became The Planet of the Apes.

During the 1950s the Grand National was dominated by Vincent O ' Brien, who trained different winners of the race for three consecutive years between 1953 and 1955.

He was also the president of the Society's National History and Archaeology Section from the early 1950s until his death.

After years of litigation due to a suit lodged by National Publications ( publishers of DC Comics ) against Fawcett for copyright infringement claiming that Captain Marvel was a copy of Superman, Fawcett in the early 1950s ( partly in response to flagging sales ) reached a settlement with DC in which it agreed to discontinue its comic line.

Khánh cited their service in the Vietnamese National Army in the early 1950s, under the French colonial administration as evidence, although he did as well.

Perhaps Zinnemann's best-known work to come out of the 1950s is High Noon ( 1952 ), one of the first 25 American films chosen in 1989 for the National Film Registry.

This growth accelerated in the 1950s with the establishment of the National Security Agency on the fort and Friendship International Airport ( now the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport ) a few miles to the north.

While not overtly setting the series in any particular town, Nick Park had previously hinted that its milieu was inspired by thoughts of 1950s Wigan, reinforced by an A-Z Wigan being displayed on Wallace's Anti-Pesto van in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

* General George S Patton Park Recreation Center, a 93-acre park in Detroit, Michigan, dedicated in the early 1950s.

Leopons have been bred in captivity ; a well-documented case occurred at the Koshien Hanshin Park in Nishinomiya, Japan in the late 1950s.

Even what was widely accepted as the largest ever " accurately " measured snake, that being Colossus, a male kept at the Highland Park Zoo ( now Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium ) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1950s and early 1960s, with a peak reported length of, recently turned out to be wrong.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the BBC soap operas The Appleyards, The Grove Family, Compact, The Newcomers, 199 Park Lane, and United!

The gentrification of the area from the 1950s included new developments to replace war-damaged properties in Canonbury Park North and South as well as restoration of older buildings.

The late 19th century bakehouse in Oaks Park is all that remains of " The Oaks " mansion which burned down and was demolished in the 1950s.

As the factory developed these diminished, particularly after the development of the Lyons Maid Bridge Park factory in the 1950s, and the new administration block in 1971.

In the 1950s Rough River Dam State Resort Park was developed at the southern border of the county.

It was renamed Menke Park in the early 1950s after the town leased the property from the railroad and took over maintenance of the land.

Prior to the opening of Melching Field, the Hatters played at old Conrad Park on the same site, which also hosted spring training games in the 1940s and 1950s and the DeLand Red Hats, a Florida State League minor league franchise.

The area ’ s first residential subdivision was LaGrange Terrace, built in 1947 ; it was later followed by the Don L. Dise and Edgewood Park subdivisions in the 1950s.

Large-scale suburban development occurred in the 1950s and 1960s, similar to in nearby Pleasure Ridge Park.

" A campaign by Clarence and Odessa Smazel in the early 1950s, owners of the St. Louis Leader-Press, a now-defunct local newspaper, resulted in the State of Michigan designating it as such: a sign in Clapp Park on Highway M-46 denotes the city as the official " Middle of the Mitten.

Planned developments in the late 1950s resulted in Oak Park being named " America's Fastest Growing City " at one point.

Ford Motor Company wound down operations at its Highland Park plant in the late 1950s, and in the late decades of the 20th century the city experienced many of the same difficulties as Detroit-declines in population and tax base accompanied by an increase in street crime.

In the 1950s and 1960s, during the Cold War, the Department of Defense ( through the United States Army ) operated Nike missile launch site D-54 on the site of what is now Young Patriot's Park.

Before the incident, Pleasureland and Muller's Park were popular summer destinations that had since the 1950s and earlier ( Muller's was built in 1935 ) attracted families from across the Tri-state area.

With increased mobility and a growing population, the suburban style residential development was born after the World War II and Kendall Park was begun in the 1950s.

In the early 1950s the township established Conant Park, its largest.

Mosher Park was named after Dr. Mosher, a Ravena based General Practitioner from the 1950s through 1980s.