Marshall Plan
Basket of Bread was used as propaganda for the European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan from 1947 to 1951. The Marshall Plan, which earned General George C. Marshall the Nobel Peace Prize, is credited with rebuilding European nations by restoring agricultural and industrial production and thereby restoring food supply and economic infrastructure in the aftermath of World War II.
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Famous quotes containing the words marshall and/or plan:
“Robert Whitmore
died of apoplexy
when a stranger from Georgia
mistook him
for a former Macon waiter.”
—Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)
“The Lord wrote it all down on the little slate
Of the baby tortoise.
Outward and visible indication of the plan within,
The complex, manifold involvedness of an individual creature”
—D.H. (David Herbert)