...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 |
| 4753467 | Movable molding for a vehicle A movable molding is provided for a vehicle on the vehicle body adjacent to a wrap-around end portion of the bumper. The molding and end portion of the bumper have mating abutment walls through which these elements are fastened together. When the bumper m... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4493502 | Car body guard A car body guard comprising a flexible rubber strap rolled up in a housing which is mounted in one of the wheel wells of the car. The strap may be unwound from the housing and extended across the side of the car and its free end fastened to an attachment ... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4095831 | Vehicle bumper device Vehicle bumper device comprises an impact receiving member at a location distant from the longitudinal end of a vehicle body and two side bumpers fixed at their forward ends to the impact receiving member. At its rearward end each of the side bumpers is d... | 06/20/1978 |