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Timeline of Brookings Institution

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| 1948 || || Recognition || United States Senator {{w|Arthur Vandenberg}} praises Brookings for a report on post-war Europe assistance that would become “the Congressional ‘work-sheet’ in respect to this complex and critical problem.”<ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 1948 || || Competition || The {{w|RAND Corporation}} is founded.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Brief History of RAND |url=https://www.rand.org/about/history/a-brief-history-of-rand.html |website=rand.org |accessdate=16 January 2020}}</ref> It is one of the top Brookings competitors. Whereas Brookings is funded by a mix of endowment and donor money, with individual scholars deciding their own major research projects, Rand is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center, a think tank directly supported by the {{w|Federal government of the United States}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Washington’s Think Tanks: Factories to Call Our Own |url=https://www.brookings.edu/articles/washingtons-think-tanks-factories-to-call-our-own/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=17 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 1949 || || Research || Experts at Brookings conduct research that forms the basis of a task force report on public welfare, prepared for the [[w:Hoover Commission|Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government]] (also known as the Hoover Commission).<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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