As Secretary of State (1947-1949), he devised the Marshall Plan for Europe's post-war reconstruction.
So today's talk of a Marshall Plan-type initiative for the region is not over-excitable.
Most Mittelstand companies sprang up in the absence of competition with capital provided by the Marshall Plan.
It originated in 1948 when the European countries banded together to administer the Marshall Plan after World War II.
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The Marshall plan was deployed to rebuild Europe after the devastation of war.
It is a kind of extended Marshall Plan without the pay back terms.
Greg Behrman's book is the first comprehensive history of the Marshall Plan since the end of the cold war.
Nuremberg may not have achieved much in the absence of the Marshall Plan.
Mr Behrman agrees that the Marshall Plan was certainly in America's strategic interest.
He wants the administration to develop a Marshall Plan focusing on the poorest of the poor in the Gulf Coast.
Supported by the Marshall Plan, the new Deutschmark superseded dubious old paintings, and even American cigarettes, as the medium of exchange.
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Internationally, the report calls for what Mr Jolly describes as a Marshall Plan for the very poor, spread over 20 years.
He cites the Marshall Plan as an example of liberal nation-building that worked, and suggests trying something similar in the Middle East.
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They launched the Marshall Plan to rebuild a Europe ravaged by war.
After the war he spent some time in government advising on Germany and working on the Marshall plan, America's aid programme for Europe.
"Greece has to exit the Euro, it has to get competitive, has to devalue currency and then almost needs a Marshall Plan, " she says.
The act and its changes, along with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, were major components of the Truman administration's Cold War strategy.
Contemplation of some of the facts above is what's making some EU politicians, above all Manuel Barrosso, begin talking about a "Marshall Plan" for Greece.
The greatest of his contributions was to the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Western Europe, a program that echoed policy recommendations made in the Long Telegram.
It's the largest increase in development assistance since the Marshall Plan.
" Justice Kennedy, the court's great middle man, puckishly noted: "The Marshall Plan was very good, too, the Morrill Act, the Northwest Ordinance, but times change.
He helped to start the Marshall Plan that got Europe back on its feet, and he was an early advocate of favoured treatment for Japan's exports.
And he adds that Hurricane Katrina could end up being a good thing for the president if his administration does what he suggests, enacts a Marshall Plan.
This new deal, Mr Brown said, would be an equivalent of the Marshall Plan, under which the United States helped revive the European economy after World War II.
Unemployment among young men of Arab and African descent runs much higher than the national average, one reason Sarkozy has promised a "Marshall plan" to train unskilled youth.
He has thrown his weight behind a so-called Marshall Plan for Africa, named after the US programme that helped rebuild Europe after the devastation of the Second World War.
Just before the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, I will hold a summit with the European Union to affirm our transatlantic ties, even as we expand our global partnership.
It is a key element of his proposals for a modern version of the Marshall Plan, which brought US aid to rebuild Europe after World War II, for the developing world.
But if I remember -- let me take you back perhaps to the period after the Second World War when, through the Marshall Plan, Germany was able to get back on its feet again.
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No amount of economic aid, no Marshall Plan, would have prevented events from taking their course, for the money would either have been spent to delay reforms or ended up in the pockets of highly placed thieves.
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