The Radium Girls The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction)

it didn't get bigger, but it seemed somehow to get deeper as though his body was still exposed to the source of the wound and the flame was burning him still.

when he realized he hacked the tip of it off, saying it now looked as though an animal had not it.

they told the girls it would make them beautiful.

my limping was causing much talk.

the harmful effect of radioactive substances on workers may set in from one to 18 years after exposure to that substance.

This is from Kate Moore's book and it's about the very first, I think the first young woman to fall ill at the USRC.

Fortunately for Radium Girls, and I'm not taking away from Kate Moore's book at all. From everything I've seen, it was extremely well researched and like it did a really great job of bringing this to the forefront.

Dave, in fact, is the one that said we should definitely mention Kate Moore's 2017 book, The Radium Girls.

The dark story of America's shining women.

This is from Kate Moore's book and it's about the very first, I think the first young woman to fall ill at the USRC.

And they said, you know, ingesting a little bit is just fine. It will put a little rose in your cheek and it's great.

Fortunately for Radium Girls, and I'm not taking away from Kate Moore's book at all.

From everything I've seen, it was extremely well researched and like it did a really great job of bringing this to the forefront.

Dave, in fact, is the one that said we should definitely mention Kate Moore's 2017 book, The Radium Girls.

This is from Kate Moore's book and it's about the very first, I think the first young woman to fall ill at the USRC.

And it says in the book, he removed it not by an operation, but merely by putting his fingers in the mouth and lifting it out.

We should have a sound effect for colons now. What if we had like one of those in-studio choruses that go colon or colon?

The Radium Girls, insert sound effect. The dark story of America's shining women.

From everything I've seen, it was extremely well researched and like it did a really great job of bringing this to the forefront.

So aside from The Radium Girls by Kate Moore, there's two books that I fucking adore that have some of this info and if you're into this shit, more.

The book, The Radium Girls, The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore.

but there is an incredible book on this case called The Radium Girls by Kate Moore.

I mean, this book, I loved it for so many reasons. It's wild. It's mind boggling that this even took place.

This book is such a fantastic deep dive on of this. I literally have nothing but praise for this book, which is honestly well researched.

It was difficult to put down.

I highly recommend the book. I think they turned it into a movie or a show called The Radium Girls.

It is laid out in gripping detail by author Kate Moore in her book, The Radium Girls.

It was Grace who led their fight, determined to find a lawyer even after countless attorneys turned her down, either disbelieving the women's claims, running scared from powerful radium corporations, or being unprepared to fight a legal battle that demanded the overturn of existing legislation.

At the time, radium poisoning was not a compensable disease. It hadn't even been discovered until the girls got sick.

Grace Fryer, who was one of the radium girls, said at the time, it is not for myself I care. I am thinking more of the hundreds of girls to whom this may serve as an example.

Radium's luminosity was part of its allure and the dial painters soon became known as the ghost girls because by the time they finished their shifts, they themselves would glow in the dark.

Kate Moore's book is called The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women.

We're hearing from author Kate Moore.

Kate Moore says that in the early 1920s, radium was everywhere.

Kate Moore says the case helped lead to the establishment of OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Kate Moore is the author of Radium Girls, the dark story of America's shining women.

I'm reading the book. You are very slowly because it's a sad story.

Yeah, like and they go into a lot of detail about what happened to these girls in the book. And it's just really sad.

Oh, like, yeah, I'm trying to imagine. They're like, your bones are like breaking. And you have no idea why.

They didn't know why. Because radium was supposed to be this miracle, you know, and we can look back and say, oh, my gosh, how did I know that? But we've done this many times over.

It's you only know what you know. Exactly.