Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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Company, slamming the drafting board with his hairy fist, "I want results!" Heads lifted over boards. Kalvin Feetch shrunk visibly. savagely. "The Piltdon Can-Opener is trailing the competition. Advertising and Sales are breaking their necks. It's Engineering that's missing the boat!" "But Mr. Piltdon," remonstrated Feetch unsteadily under his employer's "For two years there hasn't been one lousy improvement in the Piltdon "But Mr. Piltdon—" Feetch adjusted his spectacles with shaking hands. "But Mr. Piltdon, In four months I want a new can-opener that will be faster, lighter, stronger, flashier and more musical than any other on the market. I years with Piltdon. That was some satisfaction. Twenty-five years of your life you put in with Piltdon, and he'd fire you just like that if you don't do the impossible. The Piltdon Company is built upon your designs and you get handed this deal!" have no complaints. Although," a wistful note crept into his voice "I would have liked a little recognition. Piltdon is a household word, Hanson's bull-dog features drew into a scowl. "Piltdon ought to Several days later, however, Piltdon himself charged into the drawing pencil point. "Feetch!" roared Piltdon. "Is this talk that's going around the plant true? Why didn't you tell me? Let's see it." After Piltdon had seen it his eyes took on a feverish glint. "This," he exulted, "will make can-opener history. Instantaneous opening! Automatic disposal! Wait until Advertising and Sales get hold of this! We'll throttle our competitors! The Piltdon Super-Opener we'll call it." "Mr. Piltdon—" said Feetch shakily. Piltdon stared at his chief engineer sharply. "What's the matter, "Yes, sir. I've just finished checking that. But I'm in the midst of further investigation of the effect. There's more here than just a new further research can be completed. Hire a few top scientists and engineers. Find out where the cans go. Put out a scientific paper on the effect." "Feetch," bit out Piltdon, his face growing hard. "Stow this hooey. I company? As well as anything you may produce in the field within a year after leaving our employ? We have a good thing here, and I don't want you holding it back. We're going into production immediately." The first tentative shipments of Piltdon Super-Openers had gone to distributors along the Eastern seaboard. The first advertisements blazed in selected media. The first reorders came back, and then: "It's a sell-out!" crowed Piltdon, waving a sheaf of telegrams. "Step up production! Let 'er rip!" climbed to hundreds of thousands per day. Piltdon Opener went into the demand. Construction was begun on a new plant, and additional plants were planned. Long lines waited in front of houseware stores. Department stores, lucky enough to have Super-Openers on hand, limited sales to one to a customer. Piltdon cancelled his advertising program. Newspapers, magazines, radio, television and word-of-mouth spread the fame of the opener so that advertising was unnecessary. Meanwhile, of course, government scientists, research foundations, universities and independent investigators began to look into this new phenomonen. Receiving no satisfactory explanation from Piltdon, they set up their own research. any departure from its exact specifications nullified the effect. Piltdon, genial these days with success and acclaim, roared at Feetch: "I'm putting you in for a raise. Yes sir! To reward you for assisting me with my invention I'm raising your pay two hundred dollars a year. "Thank you, Mr. Piltdon." And still, thought Feetch wryly, he received nights at home investigating what had been named the Piltdon Effect. "Are you still worrying about that?" Piltdon roared jovially. "Leave dangerous. The deluge followed no pattern. Sometimes it would slacken, the Piltdon Super-Opener. precipitation and estimated that if all the cans opened by Piltdon there. Anti-Piltdon editorials appeared in the papers. Commentators accused Piltdon of deliberately hoaxing the public for his own gain. A Congressional investigation was demanded. Piltdon received threats of Piltdon's huge desk. "No!" yelled Piltdon at Feetch's face which was "You're positive, Feetch?" Piltdon's eyes glared into Feetch's. "Sir, I never make careless claims." "That's true," said Piltdon. His eyes grew dreamy. "It can be done," he mused. "The New Type Super-Opener. Free exchanges for the old. Cash guarantee that empty cans will never bother you. Take a licking at first, but then monopolize the market. All right, Feetch, I'll patent on the improvement will naturally be mine. I'll get the credit for rectifying your blunder. Fine, fine. We'll work it out. Hop on production, at once, Feetch." Feetch felt himself sag inwardly. "Mr. Piltdon," he said. "I'm asking especially on the Piltdon effect. Hire a couple of extra men to help "Damn it, no!" roared Piltdon. "How many times must I tell you? You got Piltdon started, extreme astonishment crossing his face. "No use," said Feetch. "Nothing you can say—" klunk! klunk! klunk!—"will make any difference now." "Feetch!" howled Piltdon. "I order you to remain!" Piltdon, Feetch thought, feeling a strange sensation deep within his slow anger, Piltdon was hitting low and getting away with it. research organization, he would undoubtedly get an appointment. But how could he? Everything patentable in his work would automatically revert to Piltdon under the one year clause in the company patent agreement. No, Feetch told himself, he was revealing nothing that Piltdon might "I'll go up another ten dollars," grated the little Piltdon image. "Thanks to you. Mr. Piltdon, I wouldn't work for you if—" window. "What's going on!" yelled Piltdon. "Oh, I see. People throwing change all that, Feetch? We'll put out the New Type Super-Opener and the world will soon forget about the old one." "No," said Feetch. "People will forget anyway—I hope." Piltdon Opener will soon be forced to close down, throwing all your Piltdon eyed him sharply, then smiled with a hint of triumph. "Think it it touched off the growing rage. If Piltdon were there he would have grimly, dialing Piltdon's number, he was going through with it now. "Piltdon!" he barked. "Three p.m. tomorrow. My place. Be here. That's hand. "Here is everything I know about what I call the Feetch Effect, I want fifty-one per cent of the stock of Piltdon Opener." Piltdon leaped from his chair. "Outrageous!" He roared. "Ridiculous!" counterproposals or the interview is at an end." "Gentlemen!" squawked Piltdon, "I appeal to you—" Piltdon threw the paper to the floor and screamed: "Gentlemen, will you After Piltdon had signed, the papers were distributed. effect built up as it increased its frictional electro-static charge involute teeth caused an instantaneous disruption of what I call the resented the intrusion of the cans, developed a method of disrupting "Mr Feetch—" said Piltdon. "Piltdon, don't bother me about production. Production is your problem." Piltdon blanched and left.

<question>:
What was the “Piltdon Effect”?

<options>:
A The ability to meet a tight deadline.
B The can-opener causing the cans to disappear.
C The deluge of cans falling from the sky.
D Viral interest in a new product.

<answer>:

B