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    Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren (5 June 1881 – 24 November 1961) was a Swedish entrepreneur and one of the wealthiest men in the world during the 1930s. He was...
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    research-granting bodies. The Center is named after the businessman Axel Wenner-Gren, who donated funds to finance its construction, after Nobel Prize winner...
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  • player Gren Wells, American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor Surname Axel Wenner-Gren (1881–1961), Swedish entrepreneur Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren (1760–1798)...
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  • German sports shooter Axel Welin (1862–1951), Swedish inventor and industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren (1881–1961), Swedish entrepreneur Axel Werner (born 1996)...
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  • restore the name of Wenner-Gren to the laboratory while developing new areas of research and development. Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren was a Swedish entrepreneur...
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    Life of Axel Wenner-Gren–An Introduction" (PDF), in Luciak, Ilja; Daneholt, Bertil (eds.), Reality and Myth: A Symposium on Axel Wenner-Gren, Stockholm:...
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  • Wenner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Axel Wenner-Gren (1881–1961), Swedish industrial magnate Charles F. Wenner (died 1882), American...
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  • Founded 1937 in Trollhättan, Sweden Founders Marcus Wallenberg Jr. Axel Wenner-Gren Sven Gustaf Wingqvist Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden Area served Worldwide...
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    invention of the ALWAC III-E is attributed to Axel Wenner-Gren, and the name is derived from Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren Automatic Computer, letter E stands for...
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    to tour the Caribbean aboard a yacht belonging to Swedish magnate Axel Wenner-Gren, who Churchill said was "pro-German", and Churchill complained again...
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    city district Norrmalm. Wennergren center named after the businessman Axel Wenner-Gren consists of three buildings named Helicon, Pylon and Tetragon. Stockholm...
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  • Boforsintressenter and sell off its Bofors shares to Swedish entrepreneur Axel Wenner-Gren, who long had good connections with Krupp. Karlskoga grew around the...
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  • seeking re-election. Arvad was suspected of being the mistress of Axel Wenner-Gren, a Swedish industrialist on the U.S. State Department blocklist. No...
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  • significant similarities between the character of Axel Bellmann and Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren - not least, nationality, millionaire status, connection...
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    the yacht Southern Cross and later sold her to Swedish entrepreneur Axel Wenner-Gren. On July 11, 1936, Hughes struck and killed a pedestrian named Gabriel...
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    heir, arrived on Hog Island in 1959. Hartford bought Hog Island from Axel Wenner-Gren and changed the name to Paradise Island in 1962. He hired the Palm...
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    occupational orthopedics Torsten Ullman Olof Wallenius (1902–1970) Axel Wenner-Gren, founder of Electrolux Jonas Wenström, industrialist Sven Wingquist...
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    British newspaper proprietor Lord Kemsley, the Swedish businessman Axel Wenner-Gren and another Swedish businessman Birger Dahlerus, who attempted to work...
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  • University College London. She was the president of Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren donated Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research from 2005 to...
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  • Southern Cross. She was subsequently sold to Swedish entrepreneur Axel Wenner-Gren, under whose ownership she helped rescue survivors from the SS Athenia...
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    financier, Axel Wenner-Gren. The Premingers' divorce ended smoothly and speedily. Marion did not seek alimony, only personal belongings. Axel's wife, however...
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    revolutionary Lux Model V made by AB Electro-Lux of Sweden and invented by Axel Wenner-Gren. People did not know what the new contraption was at first, but when...
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    Duchess planned to tour aboard a yacht belonging to a Swedish magnate, Axel Wenner-Gren, whom American intelligence wrongly believed to be a close friend of...
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  • varied peace movements throughout the world". Swedish millionaire Axel Wenner-Gren acted as a go-between for the Duke in the early discussions. Bedaux...
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    Axel Wenner-Gren, the founder of Electrolux a Swedish home appliance manufacturer, realised the potential of Kronberg's powered milk. In 1938, Axel Wenner-Gren...
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    the company's president, Tetsuzo Inumaru, was an old friend of Dr. Axel Wenner-Gren, the founder of Alweg. Second, Hitachi, which would build the line...
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  • profitable. This was equally true for the Alaska proposal. Entrepreneur, Axel Wenner-Gren, promised partial financial backing for the venture, titled the Pacific...
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  • Diamonds (TV series) "All Bets Off" 1989 Passion and Paradise (TV) Axel Wenner-Gren Gnaw: Food of the Gods II Professor Edmond Delhurst Small Sacrifices...
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    separate from Ellen, followed in the late summer, staying in Sweden with Axel Wenner-Gren, an industrialist who was the owner of Electrolux. At the time, tensions...
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    Cuernavaca. She lived in her sister's home, Marguerite Wenner-Gren, wife of Swedish millionaire Axel Wenner-Gren who owned a hacienda in Rancho Cortés (today Hotel...
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