...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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| 4816209 | Method and apparatus for separating radioactive constituents from gas or vapors escaping accidentally from nuclear reactors To separate tritium from gases and/or vapors escaping accidentally from a clear reactor, before the gases or vapor are discharged into the atmosphere, the gases or vapor are fed through a line 5 into a reservoir 3 of deionized light water which is maintai... | 03/28/1989 |