Al (alalkemist)

Race #714

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Official speed 69.60 wpm (62.76 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start June 23, 2010 3:50:24pm UTC
Race Finish June 23, 2010 3:51:27pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 2)
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.