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...keep legal drugs out of illegal trade, let addicts have no more than two days' supply at a time; fingerprint and photograph them to prevent registration at different clinics under aliases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prescription from the Bench | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Check Trap. To foil bad-check passers, a fingerprint camera was put on the market by Identity Recorder Co. of Monrovia, Calif, for use in supermarkets and other big-volume stores. The customer rests his check and ten fingertips on the boxlike (18½ by 13½ in.) gadget and the cashier presses a button, getting a picture of both check and fingertips. If the check bounces, the prints are turned over to police. Identity Recorders are leased at $30 a month for the first machine, $6 for each additional machine. Cost per picture (after 1.500 free exposures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...crime laboratory that is second largest in the world (after the FBI's); a 3,700,000-card fingerprint file that also ranks second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Strong Arm of the Law | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...crew of agents set out to track down the supplier of the type of paper that the note was written on, scores of agents started to examine a vast variety of public records. First, they vainly sorted through 75,000 fingerprint cards of people in the area with police records. Then they branched out, pored over voting registrations, auto-license applications, court records. In six weeks' time they picked over more than 2,000,000 different documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Telltale Letters | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...many of the junior G-Men, for example, know how to lift a decent fingerprint from a dirty fragment of glass? Certainly very few--and fewer still could trace the box of matches found beneath a charred board back to the store where it was purchased...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dragnet | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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