The station saw its heaviest usage during World War II, but by the late-1950s intercity rail passenger volumes declined dramatically with the coming of the Jet Age and the Interstate Highway System.

It was the very image of late-1950s American automobile excess, though somewhat tamer than its Chevrolet and Plymouth competitors.

From the late-1950s to the late-1960s, BEA's aircraft wore its famous red, black and white livery, which was uniformly applied to the entire fleet.

The B57 used the Tsetse primary design for its core design, shared with several other mid-and late-1950s designs.

The B43 used the Tsetse primary design for its fission stage, as did several mid-and late-1950s designs.

Thus, by the late-1950s, in correlation with the Cold War context in Asia at the time, Rennie's Mill gradually became a Little Taiwan and a Bastion Against Communism, with the flag of the Republic of China flying, its own school system and practically off-limits to the Royal Hong Kong Police Force until 1962 when the Hong Kong Government decided to turn it into a resettlement estate due to its apprehension of the growing Kuomintang presence in the enclave.

In the mid-to late-1950s RAF West Raynham was Central Fighter Establishment of the Royal Air Force.

In his opinion, the American westerns of the mid-to late-1950s had become stagnant, overly-preachy and unbelievable, and, because of this, Hollywood began to gear down production of such films.

The phenomenon only started to gain the media's attention in the late-1950s due to the re-emergence of violence in Latin American football.

Richard " Dick " Ayers ( born April 28, 1924 ) is an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics ' The Fantastic Four, and as the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt.

Morton " Mort " Meskin ( May 30, 1916 – March 29, 1995 ) was a prolific American comic book artist best known for his work in the 1940s Golden Age of comic books, well into the late-1950s and 1960s Silver Age.

Following a series of screenings which he and the National Film Theatre programmer Karel Reisz organized for the venue of independently-produced short films by himself and others, he developed a philosophy of cinema which found expression in what became known, by the late-1950s, as the Free Cinema movement.

A dramatized version directed by Douglas Cleverdon and starring Jane Asher was recorded in the late-1950s by Argo Records, with actors Tony Church, Norman Shelley and Carleton Hobbs, and Margaretta Scott as the narrator.

During the late-1950s, a number of scientists including Dr. J. Robert " Bob " Beyster left Los Alamos to work for General Atomics ( GA ) in San Diego.

Notice the tailpipe integrated in the rear bumper as well as the late-1950s American-style tailfins.

Twenty of his Gibson guitars are Les Paul Junior models from the mid-to late-1950s.

* Also in 1964: Gatwick's original, relatively short late-1950s paved runway was extended by to due to new noise rules governing the operation of jet aircraft at airports close to or surrounded by densely populated urban areas.

These aircraft facilitated aid to Nationalist China during the struggle against Chinese Communists in the late 1940s, and were later used in supply missions to French forces in Indochina and the Kuomintang occupation of Northern Burma throughout the mid-and late-1950s, providing support for the Thai police force.

In the 1950s, the Pagoda Gift Shop was a post-office and the Crystal Rock Castle was turned into a maintenance shop in the late-1950s.

In the mid-to late-1950s, rockabilly ( which melded honky tonk country to rhythm and blues ) and the slick country music of the Nashville sound ended honky tonk's initial period of dominance.

By the late-1950s Piedmont blues was being performed at US folk music revivals and festivals initially by established Piedmont blues artists such as Josh White, Rev.

Added with the pods for the dual headlights and the new 1958 Packard was a real hodgepodge of late-1950s styling cues.

Demolition began in the late-1950s beginning with the demolition of the old fish market.

The title track is loosely based on the single " The Beat Generation ", a late-1950s collaboration between Bob McFadden and poet Rod McKuen.

Ten-codes, especially " ten-four ", first reached public recognition in the mid-to late-1950s through the popular television series Highway Patrol, with Broderick Crawford.

Following the communal and political conflicts, economic collapse and social breakdown of the late-1950s and mid-1960s, Suharto's " New Order " ( so-termed to distinguish it from Sukarno's " old order ", began with much popular support from groups keen to be free of the troubles of the past.

The school's official colors of scarlet and gray can be traced to the late-1950s when UNLV adopted as mascot a wolf wearing a Confederate uniform.

Although construction of Highway 407 did not begin until 1987, planning for the bypass of Highway 401 north of Toronto began in the late-1950s.

Hawker Siddeley Trident # Introduction | Trident 1C G-ARPC in BEA's famous red, black and white livery of the late-1950s to late-1960s.

Unlike most traditional pop music singers at the time, Page was able to maintain her success in the late-1950s ( although not as successful as the early-1950s ), having three major hits in 1956, including the No. 2 hit " Allegheny Moon.

In 1954, Zapata Off-Shore Company was formed as a subsidiary of Zapata Oil, with Bush as president of the new company.

Zapata Off-Shore accepted an offer from an inventor, R. G. LeTourneau, for the development of a mobile but secure drilling rig.

If it did function, LeTourneau would get an additional $ 550, 000 together with 38, 000 shares of Zapata Off-Shore common stock.

In 1959, Zapata Corporation split into independent companies Zapata Petroleum, headed by the Liedtkes, and Zapata Off-Shore, headed by Bush funded with $ 800, 000.

In 1962, Bush was joined in Zapata Off-Shore by a fellow Yale Skull and Bones member, Robert Gow.

By 1963, Zapata Off-Shore had four operational oil-drilling rigs — Scorpion ( 1956 ), Vinegaroon ( 1957 ), Sidewinder, and ( in the Persian Gulf ) Nola III.

By 1964, Zapata Off-Shore had a number of subsidiaries, including: Seacat-Zapata Offshore Company ( Persian Gulf ), Zapata de Mexico, Zapata International Corporation, Zapata Mining Corporation, Zavala Oil Company, Zapata Overseas Corporation, and a 41 % share of Amata Gas Corporation.

In 1964, Bush ran for the United States Senate, and lost ; he continued as president of Zapata Off-Shore until 1966, when he sold his interest to his business partner, Robert Gow, and ran for the U. S. House of Representatives.

Various writers have suggested that Zapata Off-Shore, and Bush in particular, cooperated with the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), beginning in the late 1950s.

Memo from FBI Special Agent Graham Kitchel in Texas, regarding call by " GHW Bush of Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company " received 75 minutes after JFK's murder

The first memo, written by FBI Special Agent Graham Kitchel on November 22, 1963, names Zapata Off-Shore regarding the John F. Kennedy assassination at 12: 30 pm CST that day.

It begins: " At 1: 45 pm Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer.

See The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Company, 407 U. S. 1 ( 1972 ); Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute, 499 U. S. 585 ( 1991 ).