The young women sat in rows, heads bent, painting numbers on paper watch and clock faces with luminous paint. The numbers on the wristwatches and clock dials were so tiny, the workers needed a very ...

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 ...

The relationship between exposure to internal radiation and adult height and weight was considered in a group of 556 females who worked as radium dial painters. These persons were first exposed at age ...

Kate Brown reviews The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice. by Kate Moore Women using radium paint on alarm clock faces at the Ingersoll factory in 1932.

“The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women” by Kate Moore; Sourcebooks (479 pages, $26.99) Amazon TNS “The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women” by Kate Moore; ...

Tom Reimann is a writer and comedian and somehow Senior Editor of Features at Collider. He has written for Cracked.com, Mad Magazine, BunnyEars.com, and Some More News, and is the co-founder of the ...

Description: This book is a fascinating read that has relevance to public health practitioners, occupational medical and health providers, health policy makers, health physicists -- in short, anyone ...

The young women sat in rows, heads bent, painting numbers on paper watch and clock faces with luminous paint. The numbers on the wristwatches and clock dials were so tiny, the workers needed a very ...

Northlight Theatre’s new musical, based on a play the theater commissioned in 2008 titled “These Shining Lives,” tells the story of young women who worked in a factory which made clocks with radium ...