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First name on the new U.S. list, but missing from Britain's, was that of blue-eyed Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, famed Swedish industrialist. The State Department black-listed him personally, but not his companies...
Wealthiest Swede since Kreuger, Axel Wenner-Gren is a mysterious globetrotter, one of the last of the international capitalists. He built his fortune on wood pulp, aviation, munitions (Bofors), vacuum cleaners and refrigerators (Servel, Inc.). Since 1939 he has lived on Hog Island (near Nassau) on a magnificent estate called Shangri-La. He is an intimate of the Duke of Windsor. Two months ago he left Peru, where he had sponsored an archeological expedition, and arrived in Mexico, where he said he intended to "engage in economic activities...
Aboard the Southern Cross, yacht of Swedish Tycoon Axel L. Wenner-Gren, the Governor of the Bahamas and his lady this week set sail from Nassau to Miami. Reason: Her Grace needed an operation to relieve an apical infection of a non-vital molar...
...where the Krupp combine, according to the Brazilians, tried hard to get the monopoly. Hitler's commercial agents, they said, had offered to transfer the entire Skoda Works from Czecho-Slovakia to Brazil. When World War II began to devour more steel than Europe could produce, Axel Wenner-Gren, Swedish steel baron (Bofors), was also supposed to have turned up in Rio de Janeiro with an offer for exploitation by a Swedish-German consortium said to include Krupp. Hoping to interest U. S. capital, Brazil issued pointed warnings that unless the Yanquis became more ardent in their financial wooing...
...Minister Rickard Sandler got an act passed to end foreign control, through dummy corporations, of Swedish industries. It was aimed at Krupp's one-third ownership of the Bofors works. (Just before the act went through, Krupp sold out to a Swedish group headed by Tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren.) Junkers had to give up a manufacturing affiliate in Sweden, but Germans remained on the directorates of other big Swedish firms, and the German investment in Sweden's metal-working industry alone was estimated...