Mollie was a dial painter for the United States Radium Corporation, a company primarily staffed by women during the world war and specialized and producing glow-in-the-dark watches for the military. Their sacrifice wasn't in vain. Keep exploring with the Roadtrippers mobile apps. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. Going forward, protective measures were required when working with radiuma good thing, considering that the onset of WWII meant that the demand for luminous watches, and the women who painted them, skyrocketed. To get a fine point on their brushes, the women were instructed to lick the brush tip, ingesting radium every time. Instead of accepting the findings, he paid for new studies that published the opposite conclusion; he also lied to the Department of Labor, which had begun investigating, about the verdict of the original report. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. The questionable honor of being the first of the radium girls to die went to Mollie Maggia. The lick and dab painting technique engrained in her had caused her teeth to fall out, one by one. And now that it was inside of them, there was no way of removing the radium from the girls beleaguered bones. Resend Activation Email. The Radium Girls, Radium Jaw And Death By Unnatural Causes As a consequence, Grace and her friends were forced to settle out of court but they had raised the profile of radium poisoning, just as Grace had planned.The New Jersey radium girls case was front-page news, and it sent shockwaves across America. They looked like rows of shining dial- painters, walking home from work. When they checked the x-ray film, days later, there was Mollies message from beyond the grave. The Still Glowing Bodies of the Radium Girls. - HubPages The press went wild and christened them the radium girls. Sources: Jacopo Prisco / CNN, Kate Moore / BuzzFeed, Adrienne Crezo / Mental Floss, Debbie Galant / NY Times, Suzette Ferrari / Slidell Little Theatre, Daven Hiskey / Today I Found Out, Roger Russell / Radioactive.
