Word: overworking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present Mrs. Hopkins is credited by his friends with slowing down his tempo considerably, putting him on a sane regimen, and keeping him from overwork. It was not always so. In the days immediately after Pearl Harbor, when Hopkins was working 18 hours a day, one of his male friends once counseled: "Cut it out, Harry, you'll kill yourself." Harry, who is no man to overlook a little quiet drama, looked up over his shell-rimmed glasses and replied: "Do you know a better...
...President, addressing the Congress (see The Presidency), added some other facts: "More than a thousand [Army] nurses are now hospitalized and part of this is due to overwork. . . . 280,000 registered nurses are now practicing in this country . . . 27,000 additional nurses could be made available to the armed forces without interfering too seriously with the needs of the civilian population." Mr. Roosevelt's proposal: draft nurses...
...month ago, advertising trade papers carried news of the death of "Byron Keating, 59, after a heart attack attributed to overwork." Actually, Byron Keating was killed by his own parents-the two Cincinnati copywriters from whose lively imaginations he had sprung to hoax the advertising world...
...less money, workers in many departments set their own quotas. This has been brought to such scientific control that many pieceworkers collect the same amount in their paychecks-down to the last cent. For long, companies approved the quota-it kept skilled employes from burning themselves out in overwork. Publicly union bigwigs deplore the quota; privately, workers rigidly enforce it. Two months ago, eight rubber workers began serving jail sentences in Akron for beating a fellow unionist who had exceeded his quota...
...borderline illnesses as an incipient cold, a run-down condition, a morning after. The machine's chief use in industry is to detect poor working conditions. When all the hearts in a department give out low booms, something is wrong-e.g., slow escape of gas, poisonous chemicals, overwork...