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Radium’s global push spurs vast new supply drive
The piece details a surge in radium production and demand driven by medical uses and wartime needs. It notes reduced US production costs, the National Radium Institute’s efforts, European shortages, and the Kaiser’s hospital program, while outlining applications in cancer treatment, risks to workers, and potential future industrial uses and agricultural residues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National
Radium Institute
Howard Kelly
Baltimore
Bureau of Mines
Bureau
National Institute
America
Europe
American Medical Association
San Francisco
Germany
Kaiser
Samaritan
Heidelburg
Abbe
Robert Abbo
Bt. Luke'a Hospital
New York
Becaveral
Becmes
Radium Institute of London