In 1917, U.S. Radium Corp., of Orange, New Jersey, began hiring
women to paint watch and clock faces with radium-laced luminous
paint. They were encouraged to use their lips and tongue to tip up
brushes, to save time and speed production. Then they began
to sicken and die from radiation-related diseases.
Narration and production by RH Alcott
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