npr.org/2014/12/28/373510029/saved-by-a-bad-taste-the-last-radium-girl-di...

In the 1920s, working-class women were hired to paint radium onto glowing watch dials — and told to sharpen the brush with their lips. Dozens died within a few years, but Keane quit, and survived.


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