![]() ![]() Nobody knew it was harmful, except the owners of the U.S. It didn’t have any taste, and I didn’t know it was harmful.” (1) “I think I pointed mine with my lips about six times to every watch dial. “Our instructors told us to point them with our lips,” she said. After a few strokes, the brushes would lose their shape, and the women couldn’t paint accurately. They mixed up glue, water and radium powder into a glowing greenish-white paint, and carefully applied it with a camel hair brush to the dial numbers. Racks of dials waiting to be painted sat next to each woman’s chair. Grace started working in the spring of 1917 with 70 other women in a large, dusty room filled with long tables. They all had a good laugh, then got back to work, painting a glow-in-the-dark radium compound on the dials of watches, clocks, altimeters and other instruments. The women even painted their nails and their teeth to surprise their boyfriends when the lights went out. But everyone knew the stuff was harmless. It was a little strange, Fryer said, that when she blew her nose, her handkerchief glowed in the dark. ![]() Grace Fryer and the other women at the radium factory in Orange, New Jersey, had no idea that they were being poisoned. The Doors of Justice are barred to the “Doomed Radium Victims,” and notes explain that it is due to “statute of limitations, summer vacation, postponement,” in this New York World editorial cartoon.īy Bill Kovarik and Mark Neuzil, from Mass Media and Environmental Conflict (Sage, 1996), p. ![]()
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