“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 young woman from the 1920s, with a paintbrush in one hand and a tulip in the… — 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 in the bones of radium users and that it caused changes in their blood. These blood changes, however, were interpreted as a good thing—the radium appeared to stimulate the bone marrow to produce extra red blood… — Kate Moore Copy Share
“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
