Thang (diesel_industry)

Race #2559

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Official speed 88.27 wpm (49.48 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start July 29, 2013 8:09:14am UTC
Race Finish July 29, 2013 8:10:04am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 4)
Accuracy 97.0%
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.