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Jazz Recordings from: http://www.jazz-on-line.com/

Chick Webb - Blue Lou, Clap Your Hands, Don't Be That Way, Go Harlem
Fats Waller - Loveless Love, Go Down Moses, Love Me or Leave Me, Savannah Blues, Star Dust, Tea for Two, That's All, Tiny's Tempo

Jimmy Dorsey - Chimes Blues
Django Reinhardt - Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup, Hands Across the Table,
Count Basie - Exactly Like You, Fare thee Honey Fare thee Well,
Bix Beiderbeck - In a Mist,
Thelonius Monk - In Walked Bud
Dizzy Gilespie - One Bass Hit Part 2, Ow!,
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Sources:

[1] Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
https://www.kate-moore.com/the-radium...
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Radium-Girls-S...

[2] US Radium Corporation - Historic Engineering Record - https://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/hab...

[3] Inflation Calculator https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

[4] Handbook of Labor Statistics 1936 - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...

[5] A Glow in the Dark... NY Times - https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/sc...

[6] A Most Valuable Accident - Dr. Sohocky New Yorker - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19...

[7] Radium Girls - Environmental History - https://environmentalhistory.org/peop...

[8] History of Workplace Safety in the US - https://eh.net/encyclopedia/history-o...

[9] Preservation Snapshot: Radium Girls - https://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/1iden...

[10] Taking Measure - NIST - https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-mea...

[11] A Dazzle in the Bones - WIRED - https://www.wired.com/2011/03/a-dazzl...

[12] Radium Dial Company (blog) - https://raddoc1947.com/2016/07/17/rad...

[13] Library of Congress: Radium Girls: Living Dead Women - https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandher...

[14] The Radium Girls - An Illinois Tragedy - https://www.nprillinois.org/equity-ju...

[15] Radium Girls Legacy - https://radiumgirls-nhd.weebly.com/sc...

[16] The tragedy and courage of CT's “Radium Girls” - https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut...

[16] Global economic downturn linked with at least 260,000 excess cancer deaths - https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/pre...

[17] Impact of 2008 global economic crisis on suicide: time trend study in 54 countries -https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f...

[18] Did the Great Recession increase suicides in the USA? Evidence from an interrupted time-series analysis - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28625...

[19] Radiation Basics - EPA - https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiati....

Table of Contents:
Intro: [0:00]
What makes Radium so Dangerous?: [4:17]
The Dial Painters of US Radium: [8:46]
Exploitation & Lies: [14:51]
The Living Dead Lawsuit!: [25:49]
The Radium Girls of Ottawa: [34:33]
Legacy: [47:17]
Injustice!: [51:23]
Conclusion - What Comes Next?: [59:14]