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Word: bertillon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1948-1948
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...keep big inventories to supply only a small range of materials and sizes. In addition, alterations for the hard-to-fit customer cost retailers 6% of their gross. Why not work out a method to eliminate alterations? To Booth the answer was photography-in effect, an application of the Bertillon system. He took the idea to Eastman Kodak Co., which developed the PhotoMetric camera, which anyone can operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invisible Tailor | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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