Without exception, the radium girls were told the paint was safe to handle, and so virtually no precautions were taken while they handled and even ingested countless doses of radioactive poison.

Radium Girls is D.W. Gregory’s gripping drama based on the true story of female laborers who were poisoned and killed by their factory’s radium-based paint. Though Radium Girls ranges from ...

The most likely reason this myth came about is due to radium ... the "Radium Girls". The US Radium Corporation produced green-glowing paints, sold under the name "Undark", used to paint the ...