Where was the company located that the Radium Girls sue?
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Radium dials Radium dials were almost always painted by young women, who used to 'point' their brushes by licking and shaping the bristles prior to painting the fine lines and numbers on the dials. This practice resulted in the ingestion of radium, which caused serious jaw-bone degeneration and malignancy and other dental diseases reminiscent of phossy jaw. The disease, radium-induced osteonecrosis, was recognized as an occupational disease in 1925 after a group of radium painters, known as the Radium Girls, from the United States Radium Corporation sued. By 1930, all dial painters stopped pointing their brushes by mouth. Stopping this practice drastically reduced the amount of radium ingested and therefore, the incidence of malignancy, to zero by 1950 among the workers who were studied.
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United States Radium Corporation The United States Radium Corporation was a company, most notorious for its operations between the years 1917 to 1926 in Orange, New Jersey, in the United States that led to stronger worker protection laws. After initial success in developing a glow-in-the-dark radioactive paint, the company was subject to several lawsuits in the late 1920s in the wake of severe illnesses and deaths of workers (the Radium Girls) who had ingested radioactive material. The workers had been told that the paint was harmless. During World War I and World War II, the company produced luminous watches and gauges for the United States Army for use by soldiers.
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Coby Electronics Corporation Coby Electronics Corporation was an American manufacturer of consumer electronics products headquartered in Lake Success, New York, with offices and factories around the world (including the United States, Mexico, and China). With the joint efforts of Coby Electronics Co. of Hong Kong and Coby Electronics Corp. of the United States the products reached consumers in Asia, North America, South America and Europe; however, the company mostly sold in Europe and the United States. Coby also served as an OEM manufacturer for brands including Samsung, NEC, RadioShack's Presidian brand and Hyundai. Coby formerly provided OEM manufacturing for Daewoo, which is now defunct. Although Coby shutdown their products are still widely spread and used today.
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RAVPower RAVPower Inc. is an American consumer electronics brand founded in 2011 and owned by Sunvalleytek. The company's current product line is primarily focused on battery chargers, including portable powerbanks and solar chargers, shifting away from its previous focus on laptop and cell phone batteries. RAVPower products are sold through its own website and the Amazon Marketplace.
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Airgas Airgas, Inc., headquartered in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, through its subsidiaries, is the largest American distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases (delivered in packaged or cylinder form), and hardgoods (welding, safety and related products).
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O'Neal Steel O'Neal Steel, Inc., based in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, is the nation's largest privately owned full-line metals service center. The company was established in 1921 by Kirkman O'Neal, and has evolved from a metal fabricator to a distributor of ferrous and non-ferrous metal products, as well as a source for metal processing and manufacturing of various complex components. Originally focused on serving customers in the Southeastern United States, the company has grown through both expansion and acquisition, and now has more than 80 facilities and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Compass Minerals Compass Minerals International, Inc is a United States listed public company that, through its subsidiaries, is a leading producer of minerals, including salt, magnesium chloride, sulfate of potash and other plant nutrition products. Based in Kansas City, the company provides bulk treated and untreated highway deicing salt to customers in North America and the United Kingdom and plant nutrition products to growers worldwide. Compass Minerals also produces consumer deicing and water conditioning products, consumer and commercial culinary salt, and other mineral-based products for consumer, agricultural, and industrial applications. In addition, Compass Minerals provides records management services to businesses throughout the United Kingdom.
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The Vollrath Company The Vollrath Company, LLC is an American company based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin that manufactures stainless steel and aluminum small-wares and equipment, and deep draw stainless steel. These items are supplied to commercial and institutional foodservice operations.
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Silvergate Media Silvergate Media is a television production and brand licensing company based in London and New York. The company was founded in 2011 by Waheed Alli, who set up the company as part of a management buy-out, buying the rights to "The Octonauts" and "The World of Beatrix Potter" from Chorion, a company he was previously chair of.
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RMI Corporation RMI Corporation, formerly Raza Microelectronics, Inc., was a privately held fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Cupertino, California, which specialized in designing system-on-a-chip processors for computer networking (known as network processors) and consumer media applications.
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Ampco Pittsburgh Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation (American Metal Products Company) is a specialty steel manufacturer headquartered in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is one of several companies to bear the Ampco name, and it should not be confused with the Milwaukee-based copper base alloy producer, Ampco Metal Inc.; the Miami-based cabinetry company; the Swiss aluminum corporation; or the Dallas-based tool company. Ampco was formed in 1929 and is a conglomerate made up of several previously established small steel makers. Five small companies operate under the Ampco umbrella in two different product segments.
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Radium Ore Revigator The Radium Ore Revigator was a pseudoscientific medical device consisting of a ceramic water crock lined with radioactive materials. It was patented in 1912 by R. W. Thomas, an invalid in California, and manufactured by the Radium Ore Revigator Co., which sold thousands of the devices in the 1920s and 1930s.
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GDiapers gDiapers is a diaper company headquartered in Portland, Oregon that focuses on reducing the environmental impact of disposable diapers. The company sells a hybrid diaper, called a gDiaper, that is used with cloth inserts or disposable inserts that can be flushed or composted (wet ones only). An investigation by the Federal Trade Commission in 2014 determined that gDiapers' product claims of having "green" and "eco-friendly" baby products were deceptive and a form of false advertising.
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PolyVision (company) PolyVision is a company that manufactures CeramicSteel surfaces for applications such as whiteboards, chalkboards, architectural surfaces and panels, and infrastructure projects. It is a subsidiary of Steelcase and is headquartered in Georgia. The company was founded in 1954 under the name Information Display Technology, Inc. and began operating under the name PolyVision in May 1995. PolyVision has production facilities in Okmulgee, Oklahoma and Genk, Belgium, with their Okmulgee facility being one of the area's major employers.
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Narumiya International Narumiya International (jp: 株式会社ナルミヤ・インターナショナル) is a Japanese company limited headquartered in Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. The firm manufactures and distributes textiles and specializes in children's clothing.
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Raven Industries Raven Industries (NASDAQ: RAVN ) is a U.S manufacturer of precision agriculture products, high-altitude balloons, plastic film and sheeting, radar systems, and "special apparel" products. The company is headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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Arthur Andersen Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, is an American holding company and formerly one of the "Big Five" accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG, providing auditing, tax, and consulting services to large corporations. In 2002, the firm voluntarily surrendered its licenses to practice as Certified Public Accountants in the United States after being found guilty of criminal charges relating to the firm's handling of the auditing of Enron, an energy corporation based in Texas, which had filed for bankruptcy in 2001.
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Continental Resources Continental Resources, Inc. is an American oil and natural gas exploration and production company based in Oklahoma City.
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Voltex Light Bar Company The VOLTEX International Inc. is an American company based in Paramount, California that specializes in design, development and distribution of signaling devices for the fire and rescue, law enforcement, security enforcement, roadside construction and towing industries globally.
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Dow Corning Dow Corning is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. Originally established as a joint venture between the Dow Chemical Company and Corning Incorporated, it is now owned by DowDuPont and specializes in silicone and silicon-based technology, and is the largest silicone product producer in the world.
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Gemfields Gemfields plc is an AIM-listed multinational natural resources company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and is one of the world's leading supplier of responsibly sourced coloured gemstones. The company specializes in the mining, processing and sale of coloured gemstones, in particular emeralds, rubies and amethysts. The group owns the "Kagem" emerald mine in Zambia, the single largest emerald mine in the world, the "Montepuez" ruby deposit in Mozambique, the most significant ruby deposit in the world, and the "Kariba" amethyst mine in Zambia. Gemfields produces around 25% of the world’s emerald supply and 70% of the world's ruby supply.
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Renown (company) Renown Incorporated (株式会社 レナウン ) is a Japan-based company mainly involved in textile and clothing production. It manufactures textile products, and their raw materials, and sells men's and women's clothing. Renown also operates retail stores throughout the world. It also has interests in store design, real estate, and food processing. The company has 51 subsidiaries and six associated companies.