Word: radiumator
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...effects from this treatment have been noted. When radio-therapy was first used an the correct doseage was not accurately known, a few cases of "radiation sickness" were noted, but this had been encountered before the use of radium treatments and hence was not overly alarming...
...Europe, had an invariable explanation for his restlessness: "I never get ideas sitting still." Returning to the office, he always berated the editors for stagnating in his absence, then dumped a suitcaseful of "great ideas" on their desks. McClure published the first magazine articles on X ray, radium, Marconi's wireless, the Wrights' flying machine and twilight sleep; he discovered Willa Gather, helped popularize William Dean Howells and Joel Chandler Harris, introduced Stevenson, Kipling and A. Conan Doyle to their first big U.S. audiences...
Svelte Eve Curie, daughter of Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie, sister of fellow-traveling Irene, arrived in Manhattan to start an eleven-week lecture tour on France's struggle for civilization (at some $500 a lecture...
...secret uranium was once an innocent element, mined chiefly for the cancer-treating radium associated with it. Before the atom bomb, no nation bothered to be secretive about its uranium resources. Even the U.S.S.R. described in detail the deposits found within its boundaries...
...about .82% of uranium. At 26 pounds of U-235 per atom bomb (a current guess), this early production could have yielded theoretically enough "fissionable material" for four bombs. The Tyuya Muyun mine was still producing in 1936, when it (and some radioactive waters near Ukhta) yielded enough radium for Soviet needs...