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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4637407 | Cigarette holder A fire safe, environmentally protective cigarette holder for fully enveloping a lit cigarette and in which an internal power source maintains a flow of air to the lit portion and drives the exhaust smoke through a filter before it is vented to the atmosph... | 01/20/1987 |
