As Secretary of State (1947-1949), he devised the Marshall Plan for Europe's post-war reconstruction.
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.
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.
Supported by the Marshall Plan, the new Deutschmark superseded dubious old paintings, and even American cigarettes, as the medium of exchange.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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And afterward, to avoid future Bosnias and future Kosovos, we will learn the lesson of the Marshall Plan and what we did for eastern Europe after the Berlin Wall fell, by working with our European allies to build prosperity and cooperation in southeastern Europe so that there will be stronger forces pulling people together than those that are driving them apart.
He wants the administration to develop a Marshall Plan focusing on the poorest of the poor in the Gulf Coast.
To avoid it just being a sticking plaster it would have to come with large amounts of fiscal transfer, as suggested on 21 July, in the form a quasi-Marshall Plan (since eurobonds are off the agenda due to the German court ruling).
Internationally, the report calls for what Mr Jolly describes as a Marshall Plan for the very poor, spread over 20 years.
"For some reason it seems so difficult to build a plan, and then work the plan, " Marshall said.
It is a kind of extended Marshall Plan without the pay back terms.
Facts on the ground are superseding this: to save Greece, you would have to do Euro bonds, and a Marshall Plan, take losses on the debt, and - maybe - even allow some degree of temporary autarky to overcome the social crisis.
When Marshall told his father about his plan to launch his own publication, the older Marshall didn't discourage him.
So today's talk of a Marshall Plan-type initiative for the region is not over-excitable.
Marshall, an architect of the post-war plan to rebuild Europe.
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