Alaina Urquhart

Quite the opposite, in fact.

She said, quote, they told the girls it would make them beautiful.

So they actually were encouraging it.

But within a few years, it became clear that they were not being given the correct information.

Within a few years of taking the job, Peg Looney started having health problems that one would not typically associate with a young woman barely out of her teens.

Okay.

Like many of the other painters, it all started when Peg go into the dentist and having a tooth taken out.

Oh, no.

The procedure was intended to relieve some of the jaw pain that she had been experiencing.

But in the days and weeks after that, the pain got worse.

The extraction site still didn't heal.

Things only got worse from there.

And soon after, her jaw pain became so bad and pieces of teeth and jawbone started falling out of her mouth regularly.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

One day in 1928, Peg collapsed at work and the managers in Radium Dial made sure she was rushed to the company hospital.

I bet.

In fact, Holmes said, my grandparents and her siblings had no say about her going to the company hospital and we were not allowed to visit.