"Everybody knows radium is good." Working to paint radium dials with very young girls will lead them to their graves in a few years, but any qualified scientist hired by The U.S. Radium Corporation will tell you that this is not the problem at all, but that the workers suffer from syphilis, and if not, they are simply communist and
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"Everybody knows radium is good." Working to paint radium dials with very young girls will lead them to their graves in a few years, but any qualified scientist hired by The U.S. Radium Corporation will tell you that this is not the problem at all, but that the workers suffer from syphilis, and if not, they are simply communist and anarchist. And in general, the company says, even if there were side effects, it's worth moving towards progress. Well, every generation must have its radium: it must be lived, if history teaches nothing.
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