Word: fingerprints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...
...crime laboratory that is second largest in the world (after the FBI's); a 3,700,000-card fingerprint file that also ranks second...
...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...
...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...