By August 1954 Malenkov's role as de facto head of government was over ; Nikolai Bulganin began signing Council of Ministers decrees ( a right beholden to the Chairman ) and the Presidium gave in to Khrushchev's wishes to replace Malenkov.

By the end of 1954 Eisenhower's military and foreign policy experts – the NSC, CJS and State Dept.

By the time it closed in 1954, twelve million immigrants had been processed by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration.

By the June 1954 Arbenz had resigned.

By November 1954, it had become clear that the Soviet Union would reject any international custody of fissile material, but that a clearing house for nuclear transactions might be possible.

By 1954, Brown had tried to get a deal with his gospel group, the Ever Ready Gospel Singers after recording a version of " His Eye Is on the Sparrow ", but returned to Toccoa when they failed to get a deal.

By 1954 an estimated 2, 500 Soviet naval advisers were in China — possibly one adviser to every thirty Chinese naval personnel — and the Soviet Union began providing modern ships.

By 1954 there were forty-two Qatari government employees.

By 1954, as rock and roll was beginning to emerge, a number of similar acts began to cross over from the R & B charts to mainstream success, often with added honking brass and saxophone, with The Crows, The Penguins, The El Dorados and The Turbans all scoring major hits.

By the year 1954 the head of the party was the Chair of Central Committee:

By late 1954, Perot was made a lieutenant, junior grade.

By coincidence, it was Bevan's further resignation from the Shadow Cabinet in 1954 that put Wilson back on the front bench ( as a spokesman, initially, on finance ).

By the end of 1954, nearly 6, 000 soldiers had left Burma and Li Mi declared his army disbanded.

By 1954, The McDonald brothers ' stand was restaurant equipment manufacturer Prince Castle's biggest purchaser of milkshake blending machines.

By 1954, the Silver City cross-Channel network comprised five routes: Gatwick — Le Touquet, Lydd — Le Touquet, Lympne — Calais, Lympne — Ostend and Southampton — Cherbourg.

: By 1954, when Brown came up for decision, it had been apparent for some time that segregation rarely if ever produced equality.

By the terms of the Geneva Accord ( 1954 ), which ended the Indochina War, France and the Viet Minh agreed to a truce and to a separation of forces.

By 1954, he was a major and led a battalion that attacked a Việt Minh unit, forcing the communists to withdraw from Phan Rang.

By 1954, that had declined to, and by 1964, the last year production statistics were gathered, only were grown.

By 1954 eighteen mithraea had also been discovered: Mithras had his largest following among the working population that were the majority of this port town.

By 1954 it held more than 2000 people ; with its inmates held in subhuman conditions, it had become a symbol of colonialist exploitation and of the bitterness of the Vietnamese towards the French.

By the end of 1954, his agent convinced him he needed to move to New York, " where the action is.

By 1954, Willow Creek was Alaska's largest gold mining district, with a total production approaching 18 million dollars.

By 1954, the Pea Ridge Telephone Company had extended service to most rural homes in the school district.

By the end of the nineteenth century, men's gymnastics competition was popular enough to be included in the first " modern " Olympic Games in 1896.

By the time of the Summer Olympics, the NOCs had affiliated separately, though they fielded a joint team with a standard uniform as Olympic qualifying rounds had been completed before the final demise of the Soviet Union.

By the 1960s, tracks of 333. 3m length were commonly used for international competitions ( eg: the Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome used for track cycling events at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and Leicester's Saffron Lane velodrome used at the 1970 and 1982 Track Cycling World Championships ).

By 1972, the clean and press was discontinued because athletes started to push with legs and bend backwards instead of strictly pressing the weight overhead, and this left the sole elements of what is today's modern Olympic weightlifting programme – the snatch and the clean and jerk. The snatch entails pulling with a wide grip the barbell overhead without pressing out with the arms. It is a very precise lift that can be nullified by a lack of balance of the athlete. The clean and jerk is more forgiving using a narrower grip pull the bar to the shoulders and then using the strength of the legs push until arms reach full extension without a press out.

By the time she was 16, she earned a berth on the U. S. Olympic track and field team and came home from the 1956 Melbourne Games with an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 x 100 m relay to show her high school classmates.

By the end of the era, Louis Blériot had crossed the English Channel by air, the largest ship in the world, RMS Olympic, had sailed on its maiden voyage, automobiles were common, and the South Pole was reached for the first time by Roald Amundsen's and then Robert Falcon Scott's teams.

By 1921, the area could boast a ski jump, speed skating venue and ski association, and in 1929, Dr. Godfrey Dewey, Melvil's son, was able to convince the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) that Lake Placid had the best winter sports facilities in the nation.

By placing it to the north of the city, the Olympic Stadium was within the immediate vicinity of other pre-existing sporting venues.

By 1979, the IOC had finally decided that the Beijing Olympic Committee would be the " Chinese Olympic Committee " and another name would need to be found for the Olympic Committee on Taiwan.

By the second school year the gymnasium, locker room, and ' Olympic sized ' swimming pool were complete.

By winning the 400 meters, he became the first athlete since Paul Pilgrim at the 1906 Intercalated Games to do such a double at an Olympic sports event, and was the first to do so at an officially recognized Olympics.

By 2006, the amount contributed to the Olympic Installations Board accounted for 8 % of the tax revenue earned from cigarette sales.

By the early 21st century the Olympic Games and all the major team sports accepted professional competitors.

By 1980 Davies was ready for a more serious Olympic challenge.

By participating in ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Chelios set a new standard, by becoming the first player to take part in an Olympic ice hockey tournament, twenty-two years after he played in his first.

By the 1970s the sport had attracted the notice the International Olympic Committee, which added women's basketball as an official sport of the Olympic Games in 1976.

By filling the Coliseum, Cryer sought to demonstrate the city's desire to host the Olympic games.

By the end of the year, he was the NCAA champion, the Olympic champion, undefeated in all seven of his 800 meter finals, had run the 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th fastest 800 meter times in history, and easily ranked as # 1 in the world for 800 meters in 1984 by Track & Field News magazine.

By winning, he became the first Belgian track and field athlete to win an Olympic title.

By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a National Olympic Committee have won ( a nation is represented at a Games by the associated National Olympic Committee ).