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Race #508

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Official speed 61.68 wpm (70.82 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start December 14, 2011 6:39:53am UTC
Race Finish December 14, 2011 6:41:03am UTC
Outcome Win (1 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.