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...years San Francisco's Hale Bros., one of the city's oldest and biggest department stores, did business in a six-story Market Street building. For only ten years the J. C. Penney Co. has operated one of its 1,600 stores half a block down Market Street towards the Bay. Last week Hale's and Penney's were switching stores. But most San Franciscans were mystified about the reasons...
...retailer or chain that never carried higher-priced goods before is high & dry on the pyramid's peak. If a J. C. Penney store's top dress price last year was $5.98, and if there are none made today to sell at that low a price, Penney can only stop selling dresses...
...Precipitron came out of "a successful failure" in research, and a hopeful house-cleaning experiment in Pittsburgh. Some six years ago a young research engineer, Gaylord W. Penney (now manager of the electrophysics laboratories), sought a conclusion to German experiments with ionized air, found a clue to cleaner air. With a wire, a couple of aluminum plates and a burning oily rag, he rigged his first crude electrostatic dirt trap. The modern unit is as simple in principle: air entering it travels over fine tungsten wires carrying 12,000 volts which impart a positive charge to passing particles of dust...
...Into the Penney cellar went a home-size experimental Precipitron. Willing helpers in any attempt to lessen Pittsburgh grime were Mrs. Penney and daughter Marjorie Elizabeth, who became the first field-test observers. Quickly they found daily dustings were unnecessary-once a week was enough. Curtains which formerly turned dark in a few days stayed fresh for several months. At the end of two weeks, Engineer Penney filled a quart milk bottle with the black, powdery rubbish from the air. Experience with other installations (about 150 in homes of Westinghouse workers) has improved performance. Manager Penney last week reported that...
...Penney Farms...