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government, lent urgency to follow-on action. The rapid establishment of the Anglo-American Council on Productivity (AACP) in 1948 was followed by a quick succession of British and French Productivity Teams sent to counterpart U.S. plants. The Productivity Team reports which were quickly published and widely disseminated confirmed the potential for substantial improvements in production, operational methods, and management effectiveness accompanied by prospective benefits in profits, wages and consumer prices. 18. Additional U.S. conducted sector surveys soon followed in several other Western European countries. With the initial precedents set by the British and French, similar Productivity Teams from the other European nations were rapidly sent to the U.S. They confirmed the British and French findings of substantial productivity improvement potential. The stage was set for the rest of Western Europe to seriously examine and undertake the option of establishing National Productivity Improvement Drives. 19. The eventual costs of the pioneering Marshall Plan Productivity Assistance program to the U.S. and participating Western European nations during the almost ten years from the start of the program in 1948 is shown in Box 1. The unprecedented level of technological transfer is also indicated by the number of Productivity Teams, the number of European participants, and the number of American specialists requested to assist in Europe. 8

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