In November, I attended North High School’s production of “Radium Girls.” I found the story compelling and decided to read the book the play is based on — “The Radium Girls” by Kate Moore. Moore tells ...
The town of Ottawa, Ill., is banding together to honor the memories of watch dial painters who were poisoned by a radium paint in the town during the 1920s and 1930s. Piller’s father, William, is a ...
In 1922, an exciting new opportunity came to the women of Ottawa, Illinois. The Radium Dial Company opened a factory and began hiring well-paid female employees by the dozen. Their job was to paint ...
Set in the 1920's when little was known about the effects of radioactive substances, "Radium Girls" is a story of how negligence and prejudice can lead to tragedy. The dial painters slowly realized ...
They painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at the U.S. Radium factory in Orange. Then their teeth began to fall out. The 1920s story of the “Radium Girls" of New Jersey is coming to the big screen in ...
On New Year's Eve a few minutes before midnight I finished reading the book, "Deadly Glow -- The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy," by Ross Mullner. Minutes later as people in Peru, Ill., began celebrating, ...
Over 100 years ago, radium was considered a "miracle element." It was used in products like makeup, elixirs, and clocks, where radium-infused paint was used to make them glow. But then, the workers ...
A century ago, radium in scant quantities was thought to be healthful. People sipped it diluted in water and applied makeup made with it. They consumed milk and butter laced with it and brushed their ...
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