The Marshall Plan helped rebuild the cities and economies of Europe after the devastation of World War II. Along with the establishment of NATO, it assisted the restoration of a stable political structure on the continent. The Marshall plan was intended to help the European economies recover and thus prevent these crushed and demoralized countries resist the spread of Russian Communism. By 1951 most of the non-comunist states had exceeded the economic out put of just before the war. At this point the Marshall aid plan was replaced with Mutual Security plan.
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Rome's basic calorific staple was grain, to be made into bread, though olive oil and wine were also important bulk imports; some estimates suggest Rome could have consumed around 400,000 tons of grain annually.
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