FINANCIER’S DEATH
d Among World’s Richest Men (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) STOCKHOLM. Nov. 36. 1 The Swedish financier, Mr Axel Wenner-Gren, has died in Stockholm today, aged 90. He was one of the wealthiest men in the world. Mr Wenner-Gren said in 1357 he had given 25.000,000 dollars to charity. He gave his r name to a number of sciens tific foundations and research institutes in the United n States, Sweden and Austria. e His initials, A.U.W.E.G.— s for Axel Leonard Wennert Gren—form the name of his single-rail transport system, e built in Cologne. He avoided personal pub- ;- licity, except about his ens deavours to promote science, g In recent years he devoted it much of his time and energy n spreading his philosophy that science, properly used, could a solve all the world's proto- - lems.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29681, 27 November 1961, Page 21
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