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...Grand Bahama plant had been controlled by blacklisted Capitalist Axel Wenner-Gren until February 1942, when the Duke took it away from him. Worth over $1,000,000, it has an up-to-the-minute quick-freeze plant and cannery, a fleet of power-driven fishing boats, is only 60 miles' shipping distance from Palm Beach. General Foods will start operations with 300 native workers in the plant, 1,000 more as supply fishermen. Main catch will be rock lobster (crawfish); later the company will go after pompano, grouper, snapper, other tasty tropical fish. If all goes well...
TIME and Axel Wenner-Gren...
...AXEL WENNER-GREN...
...Sweden's Axel Wenner-Gren has long been one of the most interesting figures on the international stage. His recent activities so greatly interested the U.S. State Department that after he turned up in Mexico last year, the Department blacklisted...
TIME'S correspondent sought him with no reference whatever to Editor Luce. TIME is satisfied that, whether or not Axel Wenner-Gren has been misunderstood, he was not misquoted. For accuracy's sake, he was asked to repeat quotations twice. Those that were off the record were kept...