Word: wenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owned Rheinhausen Steel Works (capacity: 2,300,000 tons a year) has petitioned European Coal & Steel Community for permission to buy Bochumer Verein works (capacity: 1,560,000 tons). Krupp would pay $30 million to $40 million for Bochumer, which is controlled by his good friend, Swedish Millionaire Axel Wenner-Gren...
Home Fires. The Wymer family kept on digging, now modestly backed by the British Museum of Natural History ($140) and New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation ($250). With the help of two hired laborers, they found buckets of flint chips, tools and animal bones. Then Lea Wymer found something odd in the same deep stratum: a bit of black stuff the size of her fingernail which looked like rock but felt much lighter. A few days later she and Bertram and John all found more. They took the collection to Dr. Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum of Natural...
Last week New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, one of the backers of the search, heard from Dr. Raymond A. Dart of Witwatersrand University. Deep in the same stony layer where Digger Brain had found the tools, Alun R. Hughes and Revill Mason found two teeth of prometheus. Dr. Dart considered the find good evidence that prometheus "was actually coexistent with, and in all probability responsible for, that very primitive stone pebble culture...
...skull fragments were carefully fitted together; they were tested for fluorine, which generally increases with age. Then, diggers financed by the Wenner-Gren Foundation camped by the site to study its dusty geology. By tracing the various layers of red, grey, and white sand, they established that the skull belonged to an individual, most likely a young woman, who lived more than 10,000 years ago. She is almost certainly the oldest American whose bones have been found. This conclusion was backed by the fluorine tests and by the bones of extinct animals found in the sand with the skull...
Andros Town is not for just any casual traveler with money. "We don't want tourists," Wenner-Gren explains. One joins the Andros set by joining the Lighthouse Club. The club's initiation fee of $500, dues of $300 a year and minimum American plan rate of $50 a day are only the low hurdles. The applicant must also pass the scrutiny of the board of governors: Wenner-Gren, the Hon. Mrs. Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, Eunice, Lady Oakes, Sir Oswald Bancroft and seven other Mayfair and Florida social arbiters. If he gets by without a blackball, and would...