Carter Roy
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Women are dying.
Dentists are noticing patterns.
Questions are being asked.
He needs to get ahead of this thing.
So what does he do?
He reaches out to Harvard.
If he can get a respected scientist to say the deaths have nothing to do with his factory, everyone will believe it.
Cecil Drinker and his wife, Catherine, are researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.
They're respected and credible.
In early 1924, Roeder invites them to inspect the Orange factory.
They examine the workers.
They collect dust samples and test the air.
What they find terrifies them.
Of course, they know there's radium in the factory.
That's what the paint is made of.
But the drinkers aren't prepared for how much.
The place is saturated.
Cecil Drinker later writes that dust samples collected throughout the workroom, even from chairs not used by the workers, glow in the dark.
The drinkers also examine the workers themselves.
They see the glowing dresses, the shiny hair.