Word: radium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Growth rates are at present a matter of controversy. They should be scientifically determined. The decay rate of radium is well established. At last we can point with pride to the national debt and say it is going down, its half-life pegged, not to the vagaries of partisan politics, but to the immutable laws of nature. The debt ceiling too would be beyond the reach of legislation, limited only by the critical mass of the uranium at Fort Knox...
Died. Arthur W. Hermann, 72, a foreman from 1918 to 1922 of the U.S. Radium Corp., against which he filed a $1,000,000 damage suit three months ago, charging that he had suffered radium poisoning while at work; of cancer; in East Orange, N.J. Forty-three women employees of the company during the same era subse quently died of radium poisoning, probably from swallowing the radioactive substance while moistening the brushes they used in painting numerals on watch dials...