...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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| 4139103 | Mine car coupling including safety mechanism A safety mechanism for a mine car coupling which includes a draw pin, a pin guide connected to a first mine car with an essentially vertical opening therein for receiving the draw pin, a space beneath the pin guide for receiving a link connected to a seco... | 02/13/1979 |