The mid-1950s saw rapid progress in the understanding of superconductivity.

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 he was drawn to American rock and roll ; his mother recounts that he repeatedly saw the 1956 film Rock Around the Clock.

The mid-1950s saw the hasty introduction of diesel and electric rolling stock to replace steam in a modernisation plan costing many millions of pounds but the expected transfer back from road to rail did not occur and losses began to mount.

In the mid-1950s, the Navy saw how the UDT's mission had expanded to a broad range of " unconventional warfare ", but also that this clashed with the UDT's traditional focus on swimming and diving operations.

The idea of using polyethylene film as mulch in plant production saw its beginnings in the mid-1950s.

Because the land was technically vacant in the mid-1950s, the Australian administrators saw it as the ideal place for SIL's base, but this had been the enemy tribes ' traditional fighting ground, and tribal skirmishes and clashes continued over the intervening decades.

A fleet of the latter was commissioned in the mid-1950s to take over all the long-distance locomotive-hauled passenger services, but the line's closure in 1959 saw them re-allocated ( especially to the Great Northern suburban commuter workings out of King's Cross, for which they were particularly unsuitable ).

Before the building boom in the mid-1950s, an army surplus store proudly sold " K-mart "- type items near the corner of Columbus and 85th Street ; it saw its demise when a bowling alley was constructed nearby.

The class saw use after nationalisation in 1948, though with increasing numbers of Bulleid Pacifics able to take over their duties, the Remembrance class began to be withdrawn from service during the mid-1950s, starting with Hackworth in 1955, and finally Beattie in 1957.

The mid-1950s saw an extension of this bypass route south to the Sagamore Bridge and north to Kingston.

Since the University of Mary's beginnings as U-Mary in the mid-1950s, its history has been one of rapid expansion.

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 tribulations with the Tigerfish torpedo development, from its concept in the mid-1950s to the introduction of the unsuccessful Mod 0 variant into Royal Navy service in 1980, were responsible for the decision to purchase cruise missiles to attack ships from Royal Navy submarines.

The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet and essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s.

In the mid-1950s, gag cartoonists found a new market with the introduction of highly popular studio cards in college bookstores.

In Northern Ireland the majority of passenger services have been operated by diesel multiple units since the mid-1950s under the tenure of both the Ulster Transport Authority ( 1948 – 1966 ) and Northern Ireland Railways ( since 1967 ).

Thus, it was not until the mid-1950s that diesel locomotives got a real foothold with DSB.

Although the majority of passenger services in Northern Ireland have been worked by diesel multiple units since the mid-1950s, a number of hauled coaches have been required under the tenure of both the Ulster Transport Authority ( 1948 – 1966 ) and Northern Ireland Railways ( since 1967 ).

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.

Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term " R & B " became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music.

The first major artist was Big Bill Broonzy, who visited England in the mid-1950s, but who, rather than his electric Chicago blues, played a folk blues set to fit in with British expectations of American blues as a form of folk music.

According to Snell, GM's own testimony had shown that by the mid-1950s, GM and its agents had canvassed more than 1, 000 electric railways and had motorized 90 %— more than 900 systems.

The Gretsch 6120 is a hollow body electric guitar with f-holes manufactured by Gretsch and first appearing in the mid-1950s with the endorsement of Chet Atkins.

They developed the ' Connsonata ' electric organ ( 1946 ; later known as the Conn organ ), the ' Connstellation ' line of brass instruments ( mid-1950s ), and the first fibreglass sousaphone ( 1960 ).

In the mid-1950s Hohner began producing electric guitars.

Forty more powerful class 46 electric locomotives were built by Metropolitan-Vickers in the mid-1950s for New South Wales.

In the mid-1950s, navies of the world were faced with the challenge of how to land a large helicopter on a rolling, pitching flight deck of a smaller ship.

Kluge's major move into media was by purchasing stock in the Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation in the mid-1950s.

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.

This entry notes kluge, which is now often spelled kludge, " was the original spelling, reported around computers as far back as the mid-1950s and, at that time, used exclusively of hardware kluges ".

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 ".

The Phillies sank back to mediocrity during the mid-1950s after the departure of the " Whiz Kids ", their competitive futility culminating in a record that still stands: in 1961, the Phillies lost 23 games in a row ( a record since 1900 ).

The definition expanded backward to include rhythm and blues groups from the mid-1950s and then even further back to include groups from the early 1950s and even the 1940s.

Instead, the IMAX system specifies a separate six-channel 35mm ( 1. 377 inch ) magnetic film, recorded and played back on a film follower locked to picture, just as Vitaphone had been ( utilizing 16-inch 33 1 / 3 RPM electrical transcription discs ) in the early 20th century, and was the same technology used to provide the 7-channel soundtrack accompanying films photographed and exhibited in the Cinerama process in the mid-1950s.

Once back home, Feng began to study Marxist-Leninist thought, but he soon found that the political situation fell short of his hopes ; by the mid-1950s his philosophical approach was being attacked by the authorities.

The Hornet name plate goes back to the mid-1950s.

In the mid-1950s, the name University City was coined as a marketing tool by two realtors ( former Penn graduates ) in an attempt to attract Penn faculty back to the neighborhoods near Penn.

Many of the buildings around the area that is now a Conservation Area — Station Approach — date back to the turn of the century or before, though aside from the Forest Court shopping centre and the HSBC Bank, now a Cafe, the centre is essentially unchanged from the mid-1950s.

" The story — which dates back to the mid-1950s, when the area suffered from gangster and racketeering problems — details the supposed decline of the neighbourhood's children from being " legit " to being " dangerous ".

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.

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 ).

Peake's play The Cave, which dates from the mid-1950s, was given a first public reading at the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell ( London ) in 2009, and had its world premiere in the same theatre, directed by Aaron Paterson, on 19 October 2010.

Williams lived in a succession of small rented flats in North London from the mid-1950s.

The heyday of its usage was from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s when modern neuroleptic ( antipsychotic ) medications were introduced.

Many top architects and civil engineers from Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and other cities and thousands of workers from all parts of the USSR took part in the rebuilding process which was mostly finished by the mid-1950s.

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.

And in the mid-1950s, the region again suffered from a period of low precipitation.

* The Dundee Society, group of U. S. National Security Agency cryptologists and cryptanalysts who completed American cryptography pioneer Lambros D. Callimahos ' CA-400 class from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s

Later, in the mid-1950s, the case enabled fruit and produce to be brought from the farm to the retailer without bruising, improving the return to the producers and opening up export markets.

The earliest known composite armour for armoured vehicles was developed as part of the US Army's T95 experimental series from the mid-1950s.

The canneries failed after the collapse of the fishing industry in Monterey Bay in the mid-1950s, which resulted from overfishing.

Cannabis, LSD and peyote played an important part in Young's life from mid-1950s onwards, when he was introduced to them by Terry Jennings and Billy Higgins.

By the mid-1950s, rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States, deriving most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which itself developed from earlier blues, boogie woogie, jazz, and swing music, and was also influenced by gospel, country and western, and traditional folk music.

In the mid-1950s, Moravian church members formed a colony on the North shore of the lake, across from the Post Office.

In the mid-1950s, the Ventura Freeway, which bisects the town, was completed from Los Angeles to points north, making it an easy one-hour trip to Camarillo.

Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books specializing in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series.