The Mach 2 Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' was built only in tiny numbers, leaving the 1950s Tupolev Tu-16 and Tu-95 ' Bear ' heavy bombers to continue being used into the 21st century.

By the early 1950s the Soviet Union had seized reparations in the form of agricultural and industrial products and demanded further heavy reparation payments.

Although developmental debates took place within the Workers ' Party of Korea in the 1950s, North Korea, like all the postwar communist states, undertook massive state investment in heavy industry, state infrastructure and military strength, neglecting the production of consumer goods.

Following heavy investment in road construction from the 1950s onwards, public transport patronage fell nationwide.

Rock and roll in the 1950s was defined by a driving backbeat, heavy guitars, and lyrical themes that glorified youthful rebellion.

The group expanded strongly, both by internal growth and by acquisitions, buying heavy engineering and primary industry firms in the 1940s and 1950s and then spinning off subsidiaries in the 1970s and beyond.

Steel, once a major industry during the booming 1950s and 1960s, phased out after the late 1980s crisis, as Italy moved away from the heavy industry to pursue more technologically advanced and less polluting productions.

* Blackburn Beverley, a 1950s British heavy transport aircraft

The Ruhr was at the center of the German economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s, as very rapid economic growth ( 9 % a year ) created a heavy demand for coal and steel.

The team's popularity waned in the 1950s, and they were further bedeviled by tax issues ; the IRS demanded heavy back taxes, forcing the partners ( both of whom had been serious gamblers ) to sell most of their assets ( including Costello's rights to their television show ).

Musically the band are often recognized as the progenitors of the horror punk subgenre and have drawn from punk rock, heavy metal, and 1950s rock and roll and rockabilly to inform their style.

With the demise of heavy industry prior to World War II, and the advent of the Interstate Freeway System in the 1950s, Murray became a major retail hub due to its central location.

The city got a boost in the 1940s and 1950s from heavy automobile traffic along US-27, which was a primary artery connecting the Great Lakes region with Florida before I-75 was completed.

A heavy schedule of films from the 1950s to the 1970s made up most of Cinemax's program schedule.

The cathedral suffered heavy damage in the Second World War from aerial bombing, but was restored in the 1950s.

Between the mid 1950s and 1994, Unocal leaked of diluent — a petroleum derivative pumped into heavy oil fields to make the oil flow freely — under the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes and nearby ocean water, the largest oil spill in California's history.

The classic Boeing B-52, designed in the 1950s, would remain in service until into the 21st century as a high subsonic long-range heavy bomber despite the development of the triple-sonic North American B-70 Valkyrie, supersonic swing-wing Rockwell B-1 Lancer, and flying wing designs.

Because hard hats are intended to protect the wearer's head from impacts where heavy labor is being performed, they are made from durable materials, originally from metal, then fiberglass, and most-commonly ( from the 1950s onward ) rigid plastic.

The use of steam injection to recover heavy oil has been in use in the oil fields of California since the 1950s.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, chaebol concentrated on wigs and textiles ; by the mid-1970s and 1980s, heavy, defense, and chemical industries had become predominant.

During the 1950s, Soviet-guided China followed the Soviet model of centralized economic development, emphasising heavy industry, and delegating consumer goods to secondary priority ; however, by the late 1950s, Mao had developed different ideas for how China could directly advance to the communist stage of Socialism ( per the Marxist denotation ), through the mobilization of China ’ s workers.

By the early 1950s several international shortwave stations began to beam programs into the Soviet bloc countries in an effort to circumvent heavy censorship of world news to their citizens.

* The largest rail network in Sydney is heavy rail and run double deckers electric multiple unit trains that were introduced in 1972 with the CityRail L, R & S sets, these have allowed many more passengers to board the trains compared to the 1950s single level ' Red Rattlers ', and ' Silver Ghosts '.

In November 2008 heavy rain damaged the concrete covering that has been protecting the Vulcanal and its monuments located in the Imperial comitium space since the 1950s.

A 1950s or 1960s record store in Afghanistan, showing the increasing Western influence at the time.

As Donald Creighton ( who penned a two-volume biography of Macdonald in the 1950s ) wrote, " law was a broad, well-trodden path to comfort, influence, even to power ".

Since the 1950s, following the lead of D. W. Jefferson, there are those who argue that, whatever its legacy of influence may be, Tristram Shandy in its original context actually represents a resurgence of a much older, Renaissance tradition of " Learned Wit " – owing a debt to such influences as the Scriblerian approach.

The influence of Bloomfieldian structural linguistics declined in the late 1950s and 1960s as the theory of Generative Grammar developed by Noam Chomsky came to predominate.

Many of the ideas in Klein's book derive from the influence of the Situationists, an art / political group founded in the late 1950s.

Critics saw the influence of the horror and science-fiction films of the 1950s in Romero's directorial style.

Blues went on to influence rock and roll in the 1950s, which only increased in popularity with the British Invasion of the mid-to-late 1960s.

Chevrolet had a great influence on the American automobile market during the 1950s and 1960s.

In the early 1950s, Foucualt came under the influence of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who would remain a core influence on his work throughout his life.

Though Lysenko remained at his post in the Institute of Genetics until 1965, his influence on Soviet agricultural practice had declined by the 1950s.

He had an especially significant influence on many of the American literary movements of the 1950s, including the Beat movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain school, and the New York School.

In the 1950s, led by Leslie White, these evolutionist ideas gained influence in American anthropology.

The influence of the 1950s on Catch-22 is evident through Heller ’ s extensive use of anachronism.

Juan Gabriel Valdés, Chile's foreign minister in the 1990s, described the Chile Project as " a striking example of an organized transfer of ideology from the United States to a country within its direct sphere of influence ... the education of these Chileans derived from a specific project designed in the 1950s to influence the development of Chilean economic thinking.

The British version of cultural studies was developed in the 1950s and 1960s mainly under the influence of Richard Hoggart, E. P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and others at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Between the 1950s and 1980s, TV became a powerful way for the Christian right to influence the public through shows such as Pat Robertson's The 700 Club and The Family Channel.

During the late 1950s, Hoffman ’ s York Barbell Company, his influence in Olympic lifting and his predominately Olympic-lifting based magazine Health and Strength were beginning to come under ever-increasing pressure from Joe Weider ’ s organization.

Avery's influence can be seen in almost all of the animated cartoon series by various studios in the 1940s and 1950s.

Later, in the 1950s, Patchen became a major influence on the younger Beat poets including Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

The domino theory was a theory during the 1950s to 1980s, promoted at times by the government of the United States, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

The Santa Fe influence would remain very strong until the mid 1950s when Santa Fe moved its employees to Amarillo.

Though control of the confiscated area had been returned to the city in the 1950s, complex lease agreements with the Port Authority gave it little influence on its management.

Much of the growth can be attributed to the increased military influence during the 1940s and 1950s, in which Beaufort's population doubled as a result of new military personnel and families moving to the area.