The Radium Girls

Marvel awarded Catherine her past medical expenses, back salary for the entire period she had not been able to find employment due to her condition, damages, and an annual life pension of $277 ($4,656) for the remainder of her life. It came to a total of some $5,661 ($95,160) and was the maximum possible award the judge could deliver under the provisions of the law

He had been an early supporter of the Suffragettes; an article on their major march on Washington was headlined: 200 WOMEN AND 1 BACHELOR2—and that bachelor was Leonard Grossman.

When his story made the news, the headlines read: THE RADIUM WATER WORKED FINE UNTIL HIS JAW CAME OFF