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Box 2 Overall Magnitudes of Marshall Plan Productivity Assistant Programs D. Technical Assistance Team Published Reports 1. By 1956 over 950 Team Reports were printed in about 1,000,000 copies. Over half were industrial TA reports. 2. TA teams included prominent management, trade association, labor, government, R&D, marketing, owners, middle management, and foreign representatives in key positions to help their industry modernize. 3. Follow-up activities included plant and sector visits within the industry or sector, conferences, seminars, newspapers, trade journal publications, and training courses by Team Members. Examples: France, 500 Team published reports Germany, 100 Team published reports Netherlands, 100 Team published reports in 85,000 circulation U.K., 209 Team published reports E. Safety Net of Technical Services to Team Member Efforts 1. Assistance in organizing productivity centers 2. Technical digests of 300 U.S. technical publications relating to productivity 3. U.S. industry experience on standardization, specialization, simplification 4. Consultation services of U.S. engineers 5. Display in Europe of U.S. products, machinery, and parts on request as a lending library 6. On European request, U.S. forms to analyze products and recommend designs, specifications 7. Wide range of audio-visual aids for orientation, training on production, plant layout, etc. 8. Training and re-training programs for all levels of management, institutes, labor, govt. 9. U.S. assistance in developing national and plant level productivity statistics 10. Main inquiries from plants, government, institutes relayed for answer by appropriate U.S. firm 11. Comprehensive industrial productivity studies prepared for U.S. plants for comparative purposes and use as targets in man-hour requirements, processes, machine performance, work loads, plant staffing, job subdivision, overhead ratios, etc. 12. Consultation revenues by U.S. experts on labor-management relations, safety, housing, etc. Disk: Marshall Plan - AC Doc: Box.2 NARA

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