“Radium, they noted, had a “similar chemical nature” to calcium. Thus radium “if absorbed, might have a preference for bone as a final point of fixation.” Radium was what one might call a boneseeker, just like calcium; and the human… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“Yet the flip side of the coin was all the positive literature about radium. As early as 1914, specialists knew that radium could deposit… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“Even the commissioner of the Department of Labor, Andrew McBride, who had previously seemed reluctant to intervene, now beat the drum of change. He… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t see what else he could do. He did ask others for help, consulting a highly skilled Newark physician, Dr. Harrison Martland. But… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“The cynical would say there was only one reason a high-profile specialist finally took up the cause. On June 7, 1925, the first male… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“One might have thought that on learning of Quinta’s death—this woman the company doctors had professed was not going to die—the United States Radium… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“Still, at least she could be honest with them: “As to my health,” she wrote bluntly, “I am still a cripple.”24” — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“Why should I be so afflicted?” she would later ask. “I have never harmed a living thing. What have I done to be so… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“Are we in industry to help carry out some soft, silly, social plan? Are we in industry to buy the goodwill of the employees?… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“On September 2, 2011, the bronze statue for the dial-painters was unveiled by the governor in Ottawa, Illinois. It is a statue of a… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“In a spookily prophetic letter, Pearl Payne had once written, “My history is unusual and may be of interest to medical men of the… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“The girls shone “like the watches did in the darkroom,” as though they themselves were timepieces, counting down the seconds as they passed. They… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
