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 ...

Birmingham-Southern College Theatre Department will present “These Shining Lives,” a play about female factory workers in the 1920s who were exposed to radium, from May 2-5. The play by Melanie ...

Glowing hands shouldn’t be an occupational hazard, argue the women of These Shining Lives — nor should radium poisoning. This play chronicles the true story of four women who sought well-paid work at ...

Jean Anne Gregorzek owns a small clock that glows with luminescent paint. It doesn’t tick, but she keeps it on her dresser anyway, to remember the grandmother she never met. Quinta Maggia McDonald ...

In 1888, the match girls of London went on strike. Their reason was a particularly horrifying working condition: ingesting phosphorus. A girl with "phossy jaw" would literally glow in the dark as her ...

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 ...

Radium-Treated Patients University research center looking for persons who received radium injections or who drank radium solutions, such as “Radithor,” before 1935. Write Z7516— Advt. This ...

“Someone has to let people know it’s broken,” says a character in the drama “These Shining Lives,” referring to the lack of concern by companies to protect the health of employees. “I think the ...