The shining substance... was the most expensive substance on earth, selling for the modern-day equivalent of $2.2 million per gram.Kate Moore
Glowing from head to toe, they made easy targets, their bodies betraying their invisibility as they shimmered in the dark.Kate Moore
After clocks, it was onto military dials for aeroplanes, then onto wristwatches; the craze for all things luminous was insatiable.Kate Moore
So the radium girls actually ingested the glowing green radium paint. They swallowed it every day.Kate Moore
The women began to get sick. Terribly sick. In one case, a woman’s spine was so crushed and collapsing that it was said her back ‘bent in like an old woman’s.’Kate Moore
The company council was called in. The industrial poisoning was denied. And then there were deaths.Kate Moore
One by one, the dial-painters left their studios at night, triumphant and jaunty in the face of death, their bodies charged with a lethal substance...Kate Moore
The truth about radium, that bright and shining wonder, was out. The poison lay exposed for all to see; its brilliant gleam had been tarnished finally and forever.Kate Moore
These shining girls were dying in the most gruesome, ghastly ways imaginable, as that necrotizing element ground its way into their bones...Kate Moore
The dead girls glowed in their coffins...Kate Moore