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The Radium Girls' case was settled in the autumn of 1928, before the trial was deliberated by the jury, and the settlement for each of the Radium Girls was $10,000 (equivalent to $177,000 in 2023 [9]) and a $600 per year annuity (equivalent to $10,600 in 2023 [9]) paid $12 per week (equivalent to $200 in 2023 [9]) for all of their lives, and ...
Radium Girls is a 2018 American drama film directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler and starring Joey King and Abby Quinn. Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner serve as executive producers. [1][2] Originally screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018, the film was supposed to be released to North American theaters in early April 2020, with a ...
Grace Fryer. Grace Fryer (14 March 1899 – 27 October 1933) [1] was an American dial painter and Radium Girl, [2] who sued U.S. Radium after suffering radium poisoning while employed painting watch faces. [3] Subsequently, joined by fellow workers Quinta McDonald, Albina Larice, Edna Hussman, and Katherine Schaub, Fryer brought a suit labelled ...
In 1917, glow-in-the-dark watches were all the rage. But the girls who painted them with radioactive paint weren’t told how dangerous it was.
The United States Radium Corporation was a company, most notorious for its operations between the years 1917 to 1926 in Orange, New Jersey, in the United States that led to stronger worker protection laws. After initial success in developing a glow-in-the-dark radioactive paint, the company was subject to several lawsuits in the late 1920s in ...
In 1916, Drinker began a job at Harvard University School of Public Health. [4] She and her husband researched the Radium Girls, industrial workers who became ill after regularly ingesting minute amounts of radium. Their publication on the subject is now regarded as "a classic in the field". [5] When the Journal of Industrial Hygiene was ...
"My name is Regina George," Rapp -- who played the character in the Broadway musical -- sings in the latest spot, which is the first time fans get a glimpse of the film's musical adaptation.
Theodor Blum (September 25, 1883 – July 24, 1962) was a pioneer in local anesthesia, in the use of x-rays in dental care, and in the management of many pathologic oral conditions. He has been described as “the most outstanding oral surgeon in America.”. [1] He was a founder of The New York Institute of Clinical Oral Pathology. [2]