Peter John (alluvium)

Race #386

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Official speed 52.61 wpm (83.03 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start August 16, 2014 10:08:24am UTC
Race Finish August 16, 2014 10:09:47am UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 3)
Accuracy 91.0%
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.