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Austerity-bound Britain had few dollars to spare, but it did have a major asset named William George Penney. He was the man so securely flown to Monte Bello. Born 43 years ago in Gibraltar, the son of an army sergeant major, Penney got a top-grade education in nuclear physics by making a clean sweep of the best fellowships, including one at the University of Wisconsin. He worked at Los Alamos, sat in the observation plane (the only British scientist) when the third A-bomb exploded over Nagasaki...
...Shaped Blast. The first Bikini A-bomb tests established his reputation for sagacity on a shoestring. Disdaining the elaborate, expensive apparatus that his U.S. colleagues set up to measure the blast, Penney filled 1,000 empty gasoline tins with sea water and sealed them with cardboard flaps. When, as he predicted, the bomb knocked out the official instruments, the amiable Briton studied his crushed cans, measured the lost water, "did a bit of a sum" and came up with the answer. The U.S. offered him four times his $8,000 salary as chief of Britain's armaments research...
...KIMBALL PENNEY SAN FRANCISCO...
Albert W. Hughes, president of the J. C. Penney Co LL.D...
...People say I can see a Penney label clear through a stone wall"). After two hours he called it a day, with $45.60 in sales to his credit. Said Founder Penney: "This is the place I dreamed my dream in. This is where it all started...