sksvlad
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Radium, used in watch dials to be able to tell time in the dark, was seen as a miracle substance after Marie Curie pre IWW discovery and use of X-rays in the field hospitals during IWW https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6317180/. After the Great War, it was seen as a wonder cure for practically anything. This story, starting in 1925, is of the girls who painted watch dials for American Radium Corp. And of what happened to them after they licked the brushes......
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