The Society of the Living Dead: The Illustrated History of Ottawa's Radium Dial Scandal by Jim Ridings

The Society of the Living Dead: The Illustrated History of Ottawa's Radium Dial Scandal

America Through Time

Jim Ridings

160 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction business history challenging informative medium-paced
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"It will put pink cheeks on you."That is what the managers of Radium Dial in Ottawa, Illinois, told the young women who painted radium on the faces of clock dials in the 1920s and 1930s. Instead, their teeth fell out and their jaws and bones disin...

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