Word: radiumator
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...week he announced that he would stock the (future) dugout with a little (future) mild refreshment. He assured the 3,000 Tower employees that the refuge would be "equipped [for us] to live there 24 hours. . . ." Among its provisions: "an adequate supply of canned pineapple . . . the best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
Died. Baron Henri de Rothschild, 75. French financier, physician, philanthropist and viniculturist; of a heart ailment; near Lausanne, Switzerland. Probably the most noteworthy of the Rothschilds, Baron Henri won respect for his work on infants' diseases, on milk as a food, and on the radium treatment of cancer (he set up the famed Pierre Curie Institute for radium research). He also found time to write plays for the Paris stage...
...Like all the four known artificial elements,† curium is unstable. Each millionth of a gram shoots out 70 billion alpha particles (helium nuclei) per minute, 3,000 times as many as the same amount of radium. This activity makes a solution of curium hydroxide glow strongly enough to take its own photograph. Its "half-life" (the period during which one half disintegrates) is only five months...
...operation or by X-ray or radium treatment...
...contracted radiation sickness in a war-job at Westinghouse's Bloomfield, NJ. plant. Her illness, marked by fibrous degeneration of both lungs and a slow wasting away, puzzled doctors. Last week Miss Burns died. Reported Medical Examiner Harrison S. Martland (who in the '20s discovered radium sickness among a group of women painting luminous watch dials): Miss Burns did not die of radiation sickness. Her illness was beryllium poisoning, caused by inhaling beryllium dust, used in the manufacture of fluorescent lamps...