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.

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

During the early 1950s the board was divided on whether to defend communists persecuted under McCarthyism.

The brew, first described academically in the early 1950s by Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who found it employed for divinatory and healing purposes by the native peoples of Amazonian Colombia, is known by a number of different names ( see below ).

Beat writer William Burroughs read a paper by Richard Evans Schultes on the subject and sought out yagé in the early 1950s while traveling through South America in the hopes that it could relieve or cure opiate addiction ( see The Yage Letters ).

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.

* 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.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

Sparrow I's during tests on a F3D Skyknight in the early 1950s

Soviet-style centralised planning in five-year blocks had more immediate benefits there than in the other European states where it was first applied in the early 1950s.

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.

Her films of the early and mid 1950s were generally lightweight romantic dramas, some historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often in varying states of undress.

He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets ( inspired by Halley's Comet ) and million selling hits such as, " Rock Around the Clock ", " See You Later Alligator ", and " Shake Rattle and Roll ".

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

In the early 1950s, Armand set aside his dream to focus on developing his company's other tracked vehicles, but by the end of the decade, smaller, more efficient engines had been developed and were starting to come onto the market.

" The early 1950s literature transformed blitzkrieg into a historical military doctrine, which carried the signature of Liddell Hart and Heinz Guderian.

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.

Until the early 1950s Budweiser was primarily distributed in three packages: kegs, 12-ounce bottles and quart bottles.

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

Another precursor was the early development of the theory of computation and the digital computer in the 1940s and 1950s.

Albert Ellis ' system, originated in the early 1950s, was first called rational therapy, and can ( arguably ) be called one of the first forms of cognitive behavioral therapy.

Cognitive psychology is one of the more recent additions to psychological research, having only developed as a separate area within the discipline since the late 1950s and early 1960s following the " cognitive revolution " initiated by Noam Chomsky's 1959 critique of behaviorism and empiricism more generally.

An early image of winged Daedalus appears on an Etruscan jug of ca 630 BC found at Cerveteri, where a winged figure captioned Taitale appears on one side of the vessel, paired on the other side, uniquely, with Metaia, Medea: " its linking of these two mythical figures is unparalleled ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " The link was probably based on their wondrous, miraculous art.

The early sound-on-disc processes such as Vitaphone were soon superseded by sound-on-film methods like Fox Movietone, DeForest Phonofilm, and RCA Photophone.

Fox married Margaret Fell of Swarthmoor Hall, a lady of high social position and one of his early converts, on 27 October 1669 at a meeting in Bristol.

Some multi-track recordings were made on optical sound film, which led to new advances used primarily by MGM ( as early as 1937 ) and Twentieth Century Fox ( as early as 1941 ).

Robin Lane Fox states " By the early fifth century, we know of the ownership of private icons of saints ; by c. 480-500, we can be sure that the inside of a saint's shrine would be adorned with images and votive portraits, a practice which had probably begun earlier ".

After the early explorations, the U. S. government sought to establish control of the region, since trade along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers was still dominated by British and French traders from Canada and allied Indians, especially the Sauk and Fox.

In the early seventeenth century, when western European explorers made their first forays into the region, they encountered descendants of the Late Woodland Indians: the Chippewa, Menominee, Sauk, Fox, Winnebago, Miami, Ottawa, and Potawatomi.

Jim Thorpe, a Sauk and Fox Native American, was an all-round athlete playing football and baseball in the early 20th century.

Beit Asherah " the house of the Goddess Asherah ", was one of the first Neopagan synagogues, founded in the early 1990s by Stephanie Fox, Steven Posch, and Magenta Griffiths ( Lady Magenta ).

After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show and was an early hit for Fox, becoming the network's first series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season ( 1989 – 1990 ).

The basic functions of ubiquitin and the components of the ubiquitination pathway were elucidated in the early 1980s at Fox Chase Cancer Center by Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, and Irwin Rose for which the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 2004.

Twentieth-Century Fox made a succession of war films realistically filmed in black-and-white in the early 1950s that highlighted little-known aspects of World War II, among them The Frogmen, Go For Broke !, You're in the Navy Now, and Decision Before Dawn.

Fox's supporters, however, certainly saw themselves as legitimate heirs of the Whig tradition, and they strongly opposed Pitt in his early years in office, notably during the regency crisis revolving around the King's temporary insanity in 1788 – 1789, when Fox and his allies supported full powers for their ally, the Prince of Wales, as regent.

They split in early 1793 with Fox over the question of support for the war with France, and by the end of the year they had openly broken with Fox.

A closely allied tribe, the Meskwaki ( Fox ), were noted for their hostility toward the French, having fought two wars against them in the early 18th century.

20th Century Fox was involved in the television production as early as the 1950s.

Until the early 1990s, most Fox stations were still essentially independents.

During the early 1990s, Fox began having stations branded as " Fox ", then the channel number, with the call signs nearby.

Some Fox stations have a newscast schedule similar to many affiliates of either of the three networks that predate the launch of Fox, along with the added 10 p. m. late newscast, a weekday morning newscast extended by two to three hours and an early evening newscast that is extended by a half-hour ( newscasts in the latter two timeslots generally compete with the national morning and evening newscasts on the Big Three networks ), while others only have a half-hour or hour-long 10 p. m. newscast.

Many Fox stations that have started news departments from scratch typically do not run a full slate of newscasts as its larger affiliate competitors do, standardly launching with a primetime newscast in the network's recommended late news time period and then gradually adding newscasts in morning, midday and other evening timeslots ; Fox has recommended its affiliates to carry more newscasts ( especially ones in midday and early evening time slots ) for several years, prior to the formation of Fox News Channel.