The society of the living dead : the illustrated history of Ottawa's Radium Dial scandal

"It will put pink cheeks on you." That is what the managers of Radium Dial in Ottawa, Illinois, told the young women who painted radium on the faces of clock dials in the 1920s and 1930s. Instead, their teeth fell out and their jaws and bones disintegrated. Instead of putting pink in their...

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Main Author: Ridings, Jim
Format: BOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: AMERICA THROUGH TIME 2020
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