@rpardee Google's ngram viewer plots the popularity of a phrase in publications. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=worth+the+squeeze&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 /nosanitize
@CarmenSlamdiego nice sleuthing--thanks!
You will not be shocked to learn that I am not, in fact, Clements W Gaines.
@rpardee I stand corrected..in the first paragraph, Clemens attributes the phrase to Hugh Stanley Torbet, an engineer with the Maryland department of health. Maybe that's you?
It actually looks like a fascinating article about the cost of micromanagement decisions.