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In the mid-1950s, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Col. Harland Sanders came to Fort Wayne to find restaurateurs with established businesses in order to try to sell KFC franchises to them.
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In the mid-1950s, MacDonald toured in summer stock productions of Bitter Sweet and The King and I She opened in Bitter Sweet at the Iroquois Amphitheater, Louisville, Kentucky, on July 19, 1954.
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Nevertheless, he continues to employ his secretary, Miss Lemon, at the time of the cases retold in Hickory Dickory Dock and Dead Man's Folly, which take place in the mid-1950s.
The mid-1950s saw the rapid introduction of diesel and electric rolling stock but the expected transfer back from road to rail did not occur and losses began to mount.
The mid-1950s saw rapid progress in the understanding of superconductivity.
By the mid-1950s the system was being used in at least sixty British libraries and in a hundred by the 1970s.
A movement developed in the mid-1950s to establish two campuses, one in Kuala Lumpur and one in Singapore.
In the mid-1950s, DeMille oversaw the development of a family of distinctive uniforms designed for use by the cadets, at the new Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs CO, for which he received the Defense Department's Exceptional Service Award.
Experimenting with the use of negative space and organic forms in the late 1940s, by the mid-1950s Alston began creating notably modernist style paintings.
* Ten-pagers, comedic Donald Duck stories that were the lead for the monthly flagship title Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, whose circulation peaked in the mid-1950s at 3 million copies sold a month.
Brown moved to Universal in 1924, and then to MGM, where he stayed until the mid-1950s.
Since then McLean has stated that the lyrics are also somewhat autobiographical and present an abstract story of his life from the mid-1950s until the time he wrote the song in the late 1960s.
DC also published crime and horror titles, but relatively tame ones, and thus avoided the mid-1950s backlash against such comics.
In the mid-1950s, editorial director Irwin Donenfeld and publisher Liebowitz directed editor Julius Schwartz ( whose roots lay in the science-fiction book market ) to produce a one-shot Flash story in the try-out title Showcase.
By the mid-1950s, largely due to the ecumenical evangelism of Billy Graham, the terms evangelicalism and fundamentalism began to refer to two different approaches.
The introduction of the double-coil humbucker in the mid-1950s did away with this problem through the use of two coils, one of which is wired in a reverse polarity orientation.
The good relations between the two neighbors lasted until mid-1950s when the Cyprus problem surfaced.
The show proved a huge hit, being one of the most popular on television by the mid-1950s.
In addition, until drastically reduced in the mid-1950s, the work force associated with banana cultivation represented a significant proportion of the wage earners in the country.
Popular songs whose style bore characteristics of both hillbilly and African American music were referred to, in the late 1940s and early 1950s as hillbilly boogie, and in the mid-1950s as rockabilly.
By the mid-1950s, Bogart's health was failing.
The term " hoosier " began to take on its negative connotation in St. Louis during the mid-1950s when the Chrysler Corporation built a large automobile assembly plant in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton and closed a plant it had been operating in Indiana.
The population of Frobisher Bay increased rapidly during the construction of the Distant Early Warning Line ( DEW line, a system of radar stations, see North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD )) in the mid-1950s.
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From the mid-1950s the company came to increasingly concentrate on helicopters, eventually to the exclusion of other types.
The groundbreaking anxiolytic and sedative drug Miltown ( meprobamate ), which first came to market in the mid-1950s, was named after the town of Milltown.
First, in the mid-1950s, came a new assembly hall for the Vickers Viscount known as ' B. 1 ' ( presumably as it consisted of a number of standard war-time B. 1 type hangars re-used ( together with some T. 2 hangars too ) and rebuilt as one long double bay structure parallel to the runway.
The suburbs facilitated the formation of new centers, as Jewish school enrollment more than doubled between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, and synagogue affiliation jumped from 20 % in 1930 to 60 % in 1960 ; the fastest growth came in Reform and, especially, Conservative congregations.
During the mid-1950s Epperly opened his own shop, where he came up with a radical approach in racing car design, by placing the Offy four-cylinder engine on its side, rather than in the upright position, as was the usual custom for the old Indy roadsters of that era.
Some of these buildings were of Bachmann design, but others came from competing product lines that Bachmann absorbed in the mid-1950s.
Rock came to the island beginning in the mid-1950s.
Its military, the UPA, which came under the command of Roman Shukhevich in August 1943, would fight against the Germans and later the Soviets until the mid-1950s.
Historically, it was a formidable task to describe the nuclear force phenomenologically, and the first semi-empirical quantitative models came in the mid-1950s.
According to a 1990 interview with Osborne, Ritter came to the WCYB radio station in Bristol, Virginia, where both the Stanley Brothers and George Osborne played, in the mid-1950s.
Truffaut came across the book in the mid-1950s whilst browsing through some secondhand books in Paris and later befriended the elderly Roché.
From commissions of murals, children's portraits and book illustrations during the 1940s, a wind of change for her came by the mid-1950s.
The Rocketdyne division of NAA, which came into being under its own name in the mid-1950s, designed and tested several rocket engines at the facility.
In the mid-1950s, Wynn ’ s artistry came into the public spotlight when Edward Steichen chose two of his photographs to include in the 1955 " The Family of Man " exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
In the early 1980s, the Moscow development plan put forward several ideas about solving the build-up that came as a result of the radial-ring alignment which has determined the development of the Moscow Metro since the mid-1950s.
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McMahon married his second wife, Juanita W. Johnston ( 1914 – 1998 ), and the couple lived in Fort Lauderdale in the mid-1950s.
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Wayne Works began to diversify into other fields besides bus production through several acquisitions in the mid-1950s.
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In the mid-1950s Rothbard wrote an article under a pseudonym, saying that " we are not anarchists ... but not archists either ... Perhaps, then, we could call ourselves by a new name: nonarchist ," concerned with differentiating himself from communist and socialistic economic views of other anarchists ( including the individualist anarchists of the 19th century ).
The Free Online Dictionary of Computing ( FOLDOC ) claims that the term kluge " was used in connection with computers as far back as the mid-1950s and, at that time, was used exclusively of * hardware * kluges ".
According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.
The term " rock and roll " now has at least two different meanings, both in common usage: as synonymous with rock music and as music that originated in the mid-1950s and later developed " into the more encompassing international style known as rock music ".
Classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars ( one lead, one rhythm ), a string bass or ( after the mid-1950s ) an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit.
Although all of the western branches of the District and Piccadilly lines were included for the first time in 1933 with Harry Beck's first map, the portion of the Metropolitan line beyond Rickmansworth did not appear until 1938 and the eastern end of the District line did not appear on the map until the mid-1950s.
Elsewhere, adults, as reported in newspapers from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, typically saw it as a form of extortion, with reactions ranging from bemused indulgence to anger.
In the mid-1950s, Elvis Presley became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records.
In the mid-1950s, he appeared twice on CBS's Appointment with Adventure anthology series.
In the mid-1950s Stone moved away from strict modernist tenets and began to fuse the formalism of his early Beaux-Arts training with a romantic historicism.
The character Maynard G. Krebs, played on TV by Bob Denver in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis ( 1959 – 63 ), solidified the stereotype of the indolent non-conformist beatnik, which contrasted with the aggressively rebellious Beat-related images presented by popular film actors of the early and mid-1950s, notably Marlon Brando and James Dean.
The 2CV suspension was assessed by Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton in the mid-1950s ( according to an interview by Moulton with CAR magazine in the late 1990s ); this inspired them to design the Hydrolastic suspension system for the Mini and Austin 1100, to try to keep the benefits of the 2CV system but with added roll stiffness in a simplified design.
" The turmoil and uncertainty of the early Atomic Age and the onset of profound social changes made the old concepts of the nuclear family and traditional gender roles, reflected in the behaviour of Titanics passengers, resonate with a mid-1950s audience.
Following the mid-1950s collaboration with Winding, J. J. Johnson began leading his own touring small groups for about 3 years, covering the United States, United Kingdom and Scandinavia.
In the mid-1950s, Brooklyn Dodger team president Walter O ' Malley had tried to build a domed stadium in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, but was unable to reach an agreement with city officials land acquisition, and eventually reached a deal with the city of Los Angeles in California.
The area was developed with single-family homes beginning in the mid-1950s.
The East Sylva Baptist Church is the dominant building of the neighborhood, with a tall spire and three floors, built in the mid-1950s and replacing an earlier stone church nearby.
In the mid-1950s, the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) noted Laughlin's remoteness that allowed for secret operations, and opened its strategic reconnaissance program there with the RB-57, a bomber modified for high-altitude reconnaissance.
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