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I will be playing catherine hsu. My name is making, and i was a radium girl. Im here to tell you the story of how my coworkers, some of my closest friends passed away from radium poisoning. In 1913, radium paint was commercially produced in america for the first time. A year later, u. S. Radium corporation was founded in orange, new jersey. They began producing radium paints and radium parts for american businesses. During world war i, 95 of radio was being used for military purposes, but a small amount was being made into fashionable products such as shampoo, facial cosmetics, clothes, watches. It was even being added to water. The popularity of radium began to spread all over america because of a scientist named to because of a polish scientist named marie curie who discovered , radium onto summer 21st, 1889, while working with radioactive elements in pursuit of a doctorate degree. Both marie and her husband pierre experimented with radiological effects, they experimented to discover ....
Washington journal. Also live on American History tv on cspan3. I woke up at my home which was in eagle river. A suburb of anchorage. And it was all over the news. So by the time i got to work, i knew all about it. First reaction was disbelief. How could this happen . And the second reaction was just shock at the enormity of it. They spilled, i think, 11 million gallons of oil and covered, like, 11,000 square miles of ocean. Before it was done. The scale was inconceivable until it happened. Where r you working, what was your job there . I worked for the anchorage daily news, a reporter at the time primarily doing investigative work but also covering business so i had covered oil even before the spill. Can you tell us what the history of the oil industry was in alaska, how large was it during that time . The modern oil industry that we know today got its start in alaska in 1967 when there was a huge oil strike on the bay of the s ....
My name is may keen. I was the last radium girl. My coworkers, closest friends, passed away from radium poisoning. Radium paint was commercially produced in america for the first time. A year later the u. S. Ram corporation was founded in orange, new jersey. They began producing radium paints and radium products for their businesses. During world war i, 95 of radium was used for military purposes but a small amount was being made into fashionable products such as shampoo, facial cosmetics, quloclothes, watches was even being added to water. It began to spread all over america because of a polish scientist who discovered radium while working with radioactive elements in pursuit of her doctorate degree. Both experimented with the physiological effects and were soon working as physicians to develop new miedical uses for this new development. The u. S. Produced 80 of the worlds radium. Radium Companies Began to spread all over americ ....
Website, paper, and performance. Up next, a 10 minute performance by three middle school students. This is glowing girls triumph and tragedy of the radium women. I will be playing grace briar. I will be playing catherine hsu. My name is making, and i was a radium girl. Im here to tell you the story of how my coworkers, some of my closest friends passed away from radium poisoning. In 1913, radium paint was commercially produced in america for the first time. A year later, u. S. Radium corporation was founded in orange, new jersey. They began producing radium paints and radium parts for american businesses. During world war i, 95 of radio was being used for military purposes, but a small amount was being made into fashionable products such as shampoo, facial cosmetics, clothes, watches. It was even being added to water. The popularity of radium began to spread all over america because of a scientist named to because of a polish scientist named marie curie, who discovered radium onto summ ....
Rain has gone for now. But what is today looking like . Lisa yeah, its definitely cool out there. Stephanie. We do have a few showers in the south bay off the coast though, so the atmosphere is still a bit unstable. And were looking at live doppler seven right now. That shows the cloud cover that has cleared the bay area as we go in closer to the south bay and the monterey peninsula. There you can see just a few showers down by big sur, but for the bay area, partly cloudy, cool. 48 in fremont and san jose. Right now, danville do you check that out . 4342 in napa with 40 in santa rosa. So compared to 24 hours ago, were anywhere from 4 to 10 and 12 degrees colder this morning. And that in that post frontal air mass. So the winds are gusty and novato breezy. San francisco will have the breezy onshore winds with a sunny afternoon, but notice high temperatures still in the 50s by noontime and by the afternoon just low 60s. Bayside mid 60s for some places inland and keeping it cool at the co ....