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[ribald-faggot.livejournal.com]

From Inside Detective, September 1944. You really get a feel of the target audience of this magazine by looking at the ads. Lots of ads for booze, career schools, work clothes, and insurance. And stuff like this:

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[meig.livejournal.com]

And all the cancer. I bet it was radium paint that made it glow.

[inkytwist.livejournal.com]

Pssht. Cancer's in everything, nowadays.

Also, um, Why wouldn't they use a phosphorus base?

[meig.livejournal.com]

Back in the day they didn't realize that radium caused cancer. It was cheap and glowed in the dark, so it was nifty cool.

[chvickers.livejournal.com]

It was known by this time that phosphorus could cause fossey jaw in people who worked with it. It was considered far more dangerous than radium!

[rebel-abrahams.livejournal.com]

I came here to make that joke. 2QUICK4ME.