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public. Governments were to take appropriate actions to prevent interference of the share-out principle by restrictive business practices, and assure the adequate flow of necessary raw materials, equipment, and capital. In addition, share-out agreements were to be made by Productivity Centers with plants participating in this intensified program. In turn local funding of all technical assistance to the participating plants and industries would be waived. 75. In 1954 there was a further expansion of U.S. Productivity program support and funding by Congressional approval of Section 115(k) of the U.S. Economic Aid legislation. The success and positive results of the European National Productivity Programs to date; the dramatic increases in production and lowering of costs in many plants; and the interest in productivity restructuring in many European sectors was such that the ECA believed that a further substantial increase in U.S. technical assistance and loan funding might accelerate and make more realistic the achievement of near term improved living standards in Western Europe. 76. The additional U.S. funding was intended to commit European governments more firmly by bi-lateral agreements to expanding their economies, to increasing production and productivity restructuring targets; to encouraging competition and discouraging restrictive trade practices; to the equitable sharing 50

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