Radium Girls

Radium painters working in a factory

A cannibal feast on Tanna , Vanuatu, c. 1885–1889

01Gotti personally supervised the hit from a Lincoln Town Car parked on East 46th Street, binoculars optional — the crowd was holiday-thick.
02Four gunmen in identical white trench coats fired simultaneously; underboss Thomas Bilotti was killed in the same volley, ten feet away.
03Castellano had been meeting with his personal chef and chauffeur, who doubled as his bodyguard and his wife's alleged lover.

Young women at the US Radium Corporation painted watch dials with their lips to point the brush; their jaws later crumbled and fell out. Company doctors falsified medical records while executives stockpiled internal warnings.