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| 1946 || || || Economist {{w|Leo Pasvolsky}} becomes first director of the International Studies Group at Brookings, which conducts research and education in international relations and is the precursor to what would become the Foreign Policy program at Brookings.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1947 || || || "At the request of Senator H. Alexander Smith, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Health of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, Brookings scholars take on conduct a study of compulsory {{w|health insurance}}, which concludes that a national health insuranceprogram would be too political, too expensive, and too detrimental to the nation’s economic health. Two proposals emerge: grants-in-aid to states that will ensure quality medical attention for those who need it; and the formation of a compulsory health insurance program by the national government. The study concludes that a national health insurance program would be too political, too expensive, and too detrimental to the nation’s economic health."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1948 || || || The Brookings Institution is asked by the {{w|United States Government}} to draft a proposal on how to manage the European Recovery Program {{w|Marshall Plan}}. The resulting organization scheme assures that the {{w|Marshall Plan}} is run carefully and on a businesslike basis.<ref name="hff"/> Brookings experts play a pivotal role in the development of the program, providing valuable recommendations on the administrative organization.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
| 1957 || || || Brookings headquarters move from Jackson Avenue to a new research center near {{w|Dupont Circle}} in {{w|Washington, D.C.}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brookings.edu/lib/academic.htm|title=Brookings History: Academic Prestige| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070814201129/http://www.brookings.edu/lib/academic.htm|archivedate=August 14, 2007}}</ref>
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| 1959 || || || "1959. A Hard Look Marshall Robinson at the National Debt Ceiling. landmark research. In “The Brookings publishes ''The National Debt Ceiling: An Experiment in Fiscal Policy'',” Brookings’s Marshall Robinson which argues that the debt ceiling had has not only failed, but backfired. The study is would be quoted in congressional debates during the 1960s, and again in 2013."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1960 || || || "1960. A New Home for Brookings. institutional milestone. After the federal government uses eminent domain in 1957 to take over Brookings’s Jackson Place headquarters, which it has occupied since 1931, the Institution builds a new headquarters on Massachusetts Avenue, just east of Dupont Circle."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
