Lewis H. Brown
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Lewis Herold Brown was an industrialist and former chairman of Johns Manville, once the world's largest manufacturer of asbestos and asbestos products.
Brown circa 1930
Marshall Plan
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The Marshall Plan was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion to 17 European countries in economic recovery program
Lewis H. Brown
…Straus and Company, New York, 1947), which served as a detailed recommendation for the reconstruction of post-war Germany, and served as a basis for the Marshall Plan. Brown founded the American Enterprise Association (AEA) in New York, a think tank which later moved to Washington, D.C., and was renamed the American…
General George C. Marshall, the 50th U.S. Secretary of State
The hunger-winter of 1947. Thousands protest in West Germany against the disastrous food situation (March 31, 1947). The sign says: We want coal, we want bread
First page of the Marshall Plan
US aid to Greece under the Marshall Plan