When Peg Looney collapsed at work at Radium Dial in 1928, the company rushed her to their own hospital, barred her family from visiting, and told them she had diphtheria. She died at 24. When her family insisted on a Catholic burial and scheduled an autopsy, they arrived to find it had already been performed — and the company declared she had died of diphtheria.
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While Molly Maggia was dying in New Jersey, hundreds of young women in Ottawa, Illinois were lining up for jobs at the Radium Dial Company, which used identical techniques and identical lies. Despite a stated minimum hiring age of 18, some painters at Radium Dial were as young as 11 years old [1] — Alaina Urquhart "Girls as young as 11 hired at Radium Dial: Despite employment ads stating a minimum age of 18, some painters at Radium Dial in Ottawa, Illi…" 51:08 . The Illinois girls became local celebrities too — glowing at dances, bringing paint vials home to entertain family with glowing fingernails and eyelids. Peg Looney, hired at 17, was told the paint would make her beautiful. Within years, her jaw was falling apart. In 1928 she collapsed at work; the company rushed her to their own company hospital, barred her family from visiting, and told them she had diphtheria. Peg died at 24. When her family arranged for an autopsy to be witnessed by her own doctor, they arrived to find it had already been performed — and the company declared it diphtheria.
Despite employment ads stating a minimum age of 18, some painters at Radium Dial in Ottawa, Illinois were as young as 11 years old.
In 1927, Grace Fryer and four other dying Radium Girls filed a landmark lawsuit against U.S. Radium for $125,000 — after two years of searching for a lawyer willing to take the case. By the time of the hearing, none of the five could raise their arms to take an oath. The company's lawyers responded by asking for a delay because their witnesses were on vacation in Europe.
Factories that replaced coal engines with electric ones in the early 1900s got only 6% efficiency gains. Those that redesigned their entire factory around electricity got a 3x productivity improvement. Swapping AI tools into your existing structure will give you 6%. Rebuilding around AI will give you 10x.
Lebanese terrorists backed by Iran were holding American hostages throughout the Reagan presidency. Reagan had loudly campaigned against negotiating with terrorists — putting him in an impossible position that his team quietly decided to ignore.
During the Iran-Iraq War, the US openly supplied Iraq with weapons, training, and intelligence. At the same time, Oliver North was secretly funneling missiles to Iran. The US was playing both sides of a shooting war.
Oliver North traveled to Iran under the alias 'William P. Goode' with a fake passport. CIA Director William Casey allegedly gave him cyanide pills so he could kill himself rather than be tortured if captured. He returned safely and the deal moved forward.
The Pentagon sold missiles to the CIA for $3,700 each. The CIA sold them to Richard Secord at cost. Secord sold them to Iranian middleman Ghorbanifar for $10,000 each. Ghorbanifar charged Iran even more. The profit — including $3 million in interest in one Swiss account — was diverted directly to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran in 8 shipments over more than a year. Only 3 of 7 hostages were released. Three more were taken. The net result was zero freed hostages and a full-blown constitutional scandal.
On October 5, 1986, a CIA Contra supply plane flew a weapons drop at 2,500 feet in broad daylight. A Sandinista soldier shot it down. The only survivor, Eugene Hasenfuss, had borrowed a parachute from his skydiving brother. He was captured, paraded in front of cameras, and told the Sandinistas everything he knew.
The CIA supply operation used a front company called Southern Air Transport, widely known to be a CIA cover. Crew members of the downed plane carried their Southern Air Transport employee IDs in their wallets. One also had a business card directly linking him to Oliver North's office in Washington.
When the scandal broke, Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall conducted what became known as a 'shredding party,' destroying a day's worth of documents. The full truth of Iran-Contra may never be known because of what was fed through that shredder.
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