 In the 1949 motion picture "Free For All", Robert Cummings starred as a scientist who claimed to have invented a pill that turned water into gasoline.The 1940s television/radio show "People Are Funny" performed a stunt in which an unsuspecting crowd at Hollywood and Vine were sold "Atom Pills" at a quarter apiece.A "scientist" claimed that one pill could do the work of a hundred gallons of gasoline.