Balkan (mafkees)

Race #18

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Official speed 81.07 wpm (53.88 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start January 6, 2014 7:51:16pm UTC
Race Finish January 6, 2014 7:52:09pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 2)
Accuracy 96.0%
Points 0.00
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Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the winter and then laying them off when the work slowed down, Jay had instituted a system of paying workers a steady wage year-round. A 1937 Fortune magazine article about this and other progressive labor policies at Hormel might well shock those familiar only with the company's labor relations in the 1980s.