Word: wenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight to tourists on Caribbean cruise ships, an Austrian-born anthropologist brought news of an Indian tribe so cut off that until recently its 2,000 members thought Spanish kings still ruled Colombia. The scientist is Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 40, working with a grant from New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Indians are the Kogis, perhaps the most remarkable community of aborigines still flourishing on the American continents...
...student of anthropology, Martin was engaged in a study of the Labrador Indians. He held the Wenner-Gren pre-doctoral fellowship awarded annually to ten American anthropologists of outstanding promise...
FRANCES P. WENNER City Point...
...federal district court, Antitrust Chief Herbert Bergson went after a small company which had closely held patents: Servel, Inc., sole maker of U.S. gas refrigerators. Charged Bergson: Servel has a monopoly on gas refrigerators, through exclusive licenses from Sweden's Aktiebolaget Electrolux, founded by International Financier Axel Wenner-Gren (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948). Bergson asked the court to break up the patent arrangement. Servel's Chairman Louis Ruthenburg retorted that his company already competed with "a dozen large manufacturers aggressively in the market with refrigerators of all types, sizes and prices...