“Are we in industry to help carry out some soft, silly, social plan? Are we in industry to buy the goodwill of… — Kate Moore Business 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 Cripple 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… — Kate Moore Afflicted 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… — Kate Moore Radium 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… — Kate Moore Commissioner 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… — Kate Moore Dr Harrison 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… — Kate Moore Business 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… — Kate Moore Bone marrow 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… — Kate Moore History 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… — Kate Moore Walked Home 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… — Kate Moore Artist Copy Share Image
“Radium, they noted, had a “similar chemical nature” to calcium. Thus radium “if absorbed, might have a preference for bone as a… — Kate Moore Human body Copy Share Image
