...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 |
| 5843418 | Cosmetic compositions containing hydrophobically modified nonionic polymer and unsaturated quaternary ammonium surfactant Disclosed is a vehicle system having a thickening system which comprises a nonionic long-chain alkylated water-soluble polymer and a specific cationic quaternary ammonium surfactant component dispersed in a compatible solvent. The quaternary surfactant co... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5807545 | Cosmetic compositions containing hydrophobically modified nonionic polymer and unsaturated quaternary ammonium surfactant Disclosed is a vehicle system having a thickening system which comprises a nonionic long-chain alkylated water-soluble polymer and a specific cationic quaternary ammonium surfactant component dispersed in a compatible solvent. The quaternary surfactant co... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5807543 | Cosmetic compositions containing hydrophobically modified nonionic polymer and unsaturated quaternary ammonium surfactant Disclosed is a vehicle system having a thickening system which comprises a nonionic long-chain alkylated water-soluble polymer and a specific cationic quaternary ammonium surfactant component dispersed in a compatible solvent. The quaternary surfactant co... | 09/15/1998 |