...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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| 5623526 | Method and apparatus for repair of nuclear reactor shroud In order to support a shroud against bending, shear, stress and torsion, straps which are preferably formed of the same material as the shroud, are placed in strategic positions with respect to cracks or the like type of weaknesses which have been detecte... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5425850 | CFB black liquor gasification system operating at low pressures A black liquor gasification system intended for use as a replacement for a Tomlinson cycle, Chemical Recovery Unit, and which operates at a temperature below the ash melting temperature thereby removing the potential for smelt-water reactions and explosio... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5423272 | Method for optimizing the operating efficiency of a fossil fuel-fired power generation system A method of operating a fossil fuel-fired power generation system (10, 10', 10", 10'") in order to thereby optimize the operating efficiency thereof. The fossil fuel-fired power generation system (10, 10', 10", 10'"), which may or may not include an SCR (... | 06/13/1995 |