Cecil and Katherine Drinker conducted a qualitative study interviewing workers at factories that produced this metal. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this metal that was produced at a factory opened by Sabin Von Sochocky that employed Nobel winner Victor Francis Hess. Grace Fryer was among this metal’s namesake “Girls” who contracted poisoning from paint.
ANSWER: radium [accept Radium Girls; accept the United States Radium Corporation]
[10e] The first “Radium Girls” incident took place at the United States Radium Corporation factory in this mid-Atlantic state’s city of Orange. The Hindenburg disaster occurred 20 years later in this Northeast state.
ANSWER: New Jersey [or NJ]
[10h] In the aftermath of the “Radium Girls” lawsuit, this agency established the tolerance level of radium to 0.1 microcuries to enforce occupational safety. This agency created the SEAC computer and the Bat glide bomb.
ANSWER: National Bureau of Standards [or NBS; accept NIST or National Institute of Standards and Technology]
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