Episode 533: The Manhattan Project Part I - The Living Dead
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The Living Dead
100 workers died from radium poisoning in those watch factories. The women who work there were nicknamed the living dead. And with the bad press concerning what came to be known as the case of the radium girls, business interests fully dodged the dangers of radium radiation and they continued contributing to America's obsession with better living through chemistry.
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