The Marshall Plan at work in Great Britain

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On Marshall Plan aid to Great Britain. Shows London street scenes and a panorama of the English countryside. Flashbacks show German night incendiary raids on London during World War II. Scenes of workers constructing houses, housewives waiting in line at a grocery for rationed food, activities in shipyards and textile mills, barrels of whiskey being readied for export, U.S. tourists in British clothing stores, the manufacture of tires in a factory, grain flowing down a chute from ship to shore, and Britishers at work and at play indicate the progress of British reconstruction and economic development with U.S. aid.

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16 minutes

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Alexander Street

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