> On October 27, 2018 at 10:25 PM Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote:
> It was watch faces. > > In the 1920s or thereabouts, there was even a radium drink, which some > people used extensively. One fellow had his jaw melt away into nothing > and had a rather painful death. What irked me was the Wiki article saying that the lab workers all wore lead aprons when working with radium, while the production foremen instructed the girls to repoint their paintbrushes with their lips every multiple times per minutes while wearing no protective gear. If that was true, the people running that place belonged in prison. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com