Word: cosmopolitanization
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...Worlds. Argentina lived last week, as it had for the past century, in two worlds. One world was the cosmopolitan, factory-packed port of Buenos Aires. The other was the land of rich green pasturage, yellow grainfields and brown, newly-turned earth which stretched west to the Andes, south to Patagonia. It was what Englishmen called the "camp." as vast as the whole of the U.S. east of the Mississippi...
Henry Reichhold, chairman of Detroit's Reichhold Chemicals, Inc., world's biggest synthetic resin maker, has developed an unbreakable plastic which he claims is cheaper than Victor's. He has bought Cosmopolitan Records, Inc. (Cosmo), which is already producing 800,000 shellac records a month. After the first of the year, Reichhold expects to make 200,000 unbreakable records monthly-selling between 50? and 75? apiece. As president of the Detroit Symphony, he expects to give Victor a run for its money in classical as well as popular records...
Instead of smalltime bylines, American Weekly will henceforth parade such high-priced talent as Fannie Hurst, John Erskine, Paul Gallico, Damon Runyon, et al, from Hearst's Cosmopolitan circuit...
Inevitably, as the trading in rye got hotter & sharper, some traders got hurt. One of those hurt the most (he lost over $800,000) was Vienna-born Bernhard Rosee (pronounced Roo-say), a cosmopolitan gentleman who has traded on the commodity exchanges of Liverpool, Paris, Rotterdam, Bucharest, Winnipeg and New York...
...uninhibited; they paint as they please. Dr. Jermayne MacAgy sums it up in her catalogue introduction : "A few years ago . . . mannered representations of the 'American Scene' publicized an artificial point of view. . . . Today, there is no better reflection of America's international attitude than the . . . cosmopolitan vision among artists...