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the close intertwining of the European decisions to undertake
unprecedented scale of effort at restructuring of their industrial
and agricultural productivity, and the Marshall Plan Agency's
gamble with a level of effort and innovation to support the
National Productivity Drives. Much of the dialogue and planning
was at the highest levels of government, industry and labor, and
where recorded, was in classified and privileged form. The outward
technical assistance program forms are apparent, but what is less
understood is the dynamics in each nation's decision to break away
from a pattern of slow productivity growth since the beginning of
this century and close the gap with the higher productivity levels
of the U.S. in unprecedented short leaps of five to ten years.
4.
The technical aid programs that were novel and successful
some 40 years ago may seem at first glance to be dated and perhaps
less effective in today's changed industrial environment. But at
closer examination, many of the most apparent and dramatic advances
in this intervening period have been localized in products and
industries at the leading edge of technology and in industries with
lower technology but large-scale levels of organization. Perhaps
the majority of the industries that supply the products and
components of products that make up a large part of the basic goods
that comprise our standard of living are not much changed from the
industries of the Europe and the U.S. of the 1950s and 1960s.
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