Her body became racked by aches, and within two agonizing years, she was dead. Next came co-worker ... according to Kate Moore’s book, “The Radium Girls.” “A friend of mine told me about ...

By 1924, when dozens of radium girls were sick or dead, an independent study – one that USRC didn’t pay for – established ...

Boldly advertised as “A Cure for the Living Dead” and “Perpetual Sunshine ... but at the very high doses that the Radium Girls were exposed to, just a few years.” ...

And most of the young women are long dead from cancerous bone and jaw ... see the cleanup as a way to get the women, dubbed “radium girls,” recognized in a local museum devoted to the history ...

namely Grace Fryer (Martina Haugland), to challenge the status quo and fight for the rights of dying and the dead. Radium Girls is not an easy story to watch, especially as the naivete of the ...

In November, I attended North High School’s production of “Radium Girls.” I found the story compelling and decided to read the book the play is based on — “The Radium Girls” by Kate Moore.

This thinking ultimately proved to be, quite literally, dead wrong, especially for the ... who finally got the case to court, and won. “Radium Girls” is stunningly staged with an ironic ...

Hundreds of women and girls were exposed to a radioactive chemical at an Illinois factory in the 1920s. Years later, they helped change workplace safety standards. In the early 1900s, radium was ...

Mount Vernon High School students are going back in time for their fall production Radium Girls, written by D. W. Gregory, produced by special arrangement with the Dramatic Publishing Company of ...