Hundreds of women and girls were exposed to a radioactive chemical at an Illinois factory in the 1920s. Years later, they helped change workplace safety standards. In the early 1900s, radium was all ...
They called it “lip pointing.” It was how the dial painters at United States Radium Corp. kept their paintbrushes from fraying between strokes. The employees, mostly young women, would stick the end ...
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