Standards of Living in Asia
GERARD SWOPE, who was President of the General Electric Compan y from 1922 to 1940, and again from 1942 to the end of 1944, is one of the most beloved elder statesmen in American industry. In 1938 we published in the Atlantic his authoritative findings about the cost of living in Europe, and in June, 1940, his second analysis. “The Cost of Living in South America"; in 1950 he visited one country in the Near East and seven in the Far East, and here is his revealing comparison of their cost of living with ours.