Excerpt from Cooperation and Cost of Living in Certain Foreign Countries: Message of the President of the United States Transmitting Data on Cooperation and the Cost of Living in Certain Foreign Countries, March 13, 1912 The facilities of the Department of State, by your direction, have been employed for some months past in gathering and collating ih formation concerning Cooperative societies and the cost of living in Certain foreign countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.