Religious vigor and doubts mark 1955 America
Amid strong religious growth in 1955 America's faith surged with new churches and revivalist energy led by figures like Fulton J. Sheen Norman Vincent Peale and Billy Graham. Yet denominational tensions racial desegregation and church state debates stirred doubt and restraint across Catholic Protestant and Jewish communities. Rockefeller funded theological education with 20 million dollars.
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Fulton J. Sheen
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Honolulu
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Presbyterian Church
Midwest
Senate
Russia
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Military Tests Show New Perils As Manpower Cuts Loom
End of 1955 finds U S armed forces stretched thin worldwide and anxious over homeland defense. Camp Polk maneuvers show radar jamming by aggressors disabling air control. Despite planners, manpower cuts to 2 850 000 by mid 1956 proceed with no air program boost.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
Far East
Formosa
United States
Bem
Old Tension Of Cold War II Continued
A 1955 recap notes shifts in leadership and diplomacy as Russia dismisses Malenkov and Geneva conferences reveal wider split. It covers arms to Egypt, Bandung talks, North Africa clashes, Austria sovereignty, and Churchill aging while Eisenhower invites Eden, signaling cautious peace after a year without open war.
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Russia
Georgi Malenkov
Geneva
Egypt
Israel
China
Formosa Strait
Bandung
Indonesia
North Africa
Austria
Germany
Britain
John Bull
Winston Churchill
Margaret
Eisenhower
Anthony Eden
Nation Struggles to Meet Climbing Education Needs
Five major events shaped 1955 in education as enrollments rose and facilities lagged. Eisenhower urged limited federal aid for construction while courts pressed desegregation and the White House Education Conference backed federal aid. Flesch defended phonics amid debate as Progressive Education declined and enrollment rose to 30.57 million students with 1.14 million teachers.
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Rudolph Flesch
Johnny
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Fund For the Advancement of Education
Office of Education
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Ford Foundation
Herman R. Allen
Farm Trouble Contrasted With Climbing Prosperity
Agriculture faced ongoing declines in prices and farmer incomes as a seven billion dollar surplus kept prices low. Despite a 5 percent drop in prices for the year, domestic food demand remained strong as the Eisenhower administration faced pressure to adjust farm policies and reduce surpluses abroad.
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Eisenhower
Benson
U.S
Use of Polio Vaccine Big Gain for Science
The 1955 polio vaccine success cut paralytic cases by 80 percent or more and mark a landmark in public health. Space plans emerged with moon satellites and space probes, while medical research advanced with heart-lung devices penicillin for rheumatic fever and vaccines for poison ivy.
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Space
United States
Earth
Russia
Eisenhower
Georgia
Light Side People And The Year 1955 Reflections
Nostalgic look at odd 1955 events. A Muskegon judge calls a blonde a liability in a divorce case. A Whitmore Lake judge jokes about fairness in a bathing beauty contest. A Mulhouse husband sues a gunsmith after a failed shot at his wife. Three Montgomery convicts print counterfeit money. A Vancouver man installs four speeds in reverse and one forward. A San Diego recruit’s tonsillitis links to family names. A South Bend woman wins divorce for silence, Durmont rival for talk. Joy Miller.
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Muskegon, Mich
Whitmore Lake
Mich
Mulhouse
France
Enthusiasm Unlimited
Montgomery
Ala
Draper
Vancouver
B.C
Jackson
San Diego
Meningitis
South Bend
Ind
Dumont, N.J
Joy Miller
Eisenhower Heart Attack Sparks 1955 Political Moves
The 1955 political year saw a flurry of presidential speculation for 1956 with Eisenhower’s September heart attack shaping candidate outlooks in both parties. Adlai Stevenson led Democrats as the lone declared candidate, while farm policy, government misconduct charges, and cabinet support dominated debates. Conventions were set for San Francisco and Chicago, labor unions integrated, and local gains in November fueled ongoing partisan momentum.
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Eisenhower
White House
Adlai E. Stevenson
Congress
Dixon-Yates
Atomic Energy Commission
Benson
GOP
San Francisco
Chicago
AFL
CIO
1955 U.S. Boom Draws Record Production and Spending
The 1955 U.S. economy reached historic highs with record car, steel, coal, oil output and expansion in construction and retail sales. GNP approached 400 billion dollars as big business and consumers alike spent heavily, aided by easy credit before a market wobble after Eisenhower suffered a heart attack. The Fed tightened rates four times to curb inflation while signaling possible easing if growth slowed.
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U.S
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Eisenhower
Wall Street
Associated Press
Federal Reserve System
Walter Breede Jr
Entertainment Has a Big Year in 1959
A retrospective on 1955 Hollywood and Broadway noting two seven million dollar pictures Oklahoma and The Ten Commandments plus the six million dollar musical Guys and Dolls. Mentions Cecil B. DeMille Sam Goldwyn Hammerstein and expectations of record grosses.
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Hollywood
Oklahoma
Cecil B. deMille
Sam Goldwyn
Oscar Hammerstein III
Paul Muni
Anne Frank
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