Bellows, Everett H. Papers

Director, Productivity and Technical Assistance Division, Office of U.S. Special Representative in Europe, Mutual Security Agency, 1951-1953

The papers of Everett H. Bellows consist of correspondence, reports, news clippings, photographs and other items mostly pertaining to Bellows’s activities as Director of the Productivity and Technical Assistance Division, Office of U.S. Special Representative in Europe, Mutual Security Agency.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Size: Less than one-half of one linear foot (about 160 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave his copyright interest in his writings among these papers to the U.S. Government. Documents created by U.S. Government employees in the course of their official duties are also in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents or their heirs.
Processed by: C. Warren Ohrvall (1972); Amy Moorman (2009).

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

1913 (July 13)		Born, Everett Hollis Bellows, Toledo, Ohio
1939		A.B., George Washington University
1939 (April 8)		Married Edna Walter
1939-1941		Placement Officer, Federal Security Agency
1941		M.A., George Washington University
1941-1943		Personnel Director, Office for Emergency Management
1943-1946		Lieutenant (j.g.) United States Naval Reserves
1946-1948		Executive Officer, Office of Foreign Service, State Department
1948-1950		Deputy Executive Assistant, Office of U.S. Special Representative in Europe, Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA)
1950-1951		Special Assistant to the Administrator, ECA and Mutual Security Agency (MSA)
1951-1953		Director, Productivity and Technical Assistance Division, Office of U.S. Special Representative in Europe, MSA
1954-1962		Executive, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation
1962-1978		Vice President, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation
2003 (April 10)		Died, Arlington, Virginia

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The papers of Everett H. Bellows consist of correspondence, reports, news clippings, photographs and other material mostly related to Bellows’s activities as Director of the Productivity and Technical Assistance Division, Office of U.S. Special Representative in Europe, Mutual Security Agency (MSA). He held this position from 1951 to 1953.

The collection consists of one series, the Productivity and Technical Assistance Division (PTAD) File. This series documents the activities and progress of the MSA’s productivity program in Europe. The program’s objective was to help Europeans recreate an expanding economy by rethinking management and marketing practices.

Included in this series are progress reports and correspondence detailing the objectives of the Division. Some of the correspondence is between Bellows and Davis S. Brown, Secretary of the MSA’s Public Advisory Board. Also included are a schedule of events, meeting agenda, and list of participants for a 1951 meeting of Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) mission chiefs in Copenhagen, Denmark; a speech delivered by Bellows before the National Management Council in 1952; photographs of the Paris conference of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation in 1952; and news clippings related to economic productivity in Europe and the U.S.

More information about the MSA can be found at the Truman Library in the papers of Harry S. Truman, Edward A. Tenenbaum, Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., D. Alan Strachan, and George M. Elsey.

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