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.
—from SPAM: A Biography: The Amazing True Story of America's "Miracle Meat!", a book by Carolyn Wyman
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38651. | Kasem (kasema) | 39.05 | 94% | 2022-06-11 |
38652. | Atif (atitemp) | 39.04 | 97% | 2018-11-08 |
38653. | Abdallah (abdallah1) | 39.02 | 93% | 2017-06-08 |
38654. | daniel (daniel_02) | 39.02 | 93% | 2017-10-03 |
38655. | ToNNey (tonney16) | 39.01 | 95% | 2012-05-29 |
38656. | ROWLAND (rownet) | 39.01 | 83% | 2017-02-11 |
38657. | Justin (sleepy_typist) | 39.00 | 94% | 2020-01-15 |
38658. | hridoy_mozumder (hridoy_moz... | 39.00 | 94% | 2023-12-21 |
38659. | Yus (yustynnd) | 38.99 | 88% | 2014-04-18 |
38660. | Annette (gadonl) | 38.99 | 93% | 2014-04-02 |
38661. | Mudathir (mudathir) | 38.99 | 86% | 2016-10-01 |
38662. | Dhruv (codenta) | 38.98 | 92% | 2021-11-29 |
38663. | jimmy (zojim) | 38.98 | 95% | 2021-04-29 |
38664. | sudhakar (mankatha) | 38.98 | 95% | 2012-08-22 |
38665. | diana (princessdiana) | 38.97 | 78% | 2012-01-07 |
38666. | Nam (supergimper) | 38.97 | 96% | 2012-01-19 |
38667. | Daryl (djjones217) | 38.96 | 86% | 2016-04-25 |
38668. | FĂ©lix (paquet) | 38.96 | 98% | 2023-10-12 |
38669. | Allritch (cleritch) | 38.95 | 95% | 2019-08-11 |
38670. | Mark Carrico (mcarrico) | 38.94 | 95.7% | 2023-11-29 |
38671. | Carlo (carloemorallos) | 38.94 | 88% | 2016-10-07 |
38672. | BeeDee23 (beedee_23) | 38.94 | 94% | 2020-10-23 |
38673. | joe (joeturner) | 38.93 | 92% | 2014-01-08 |
38674. | mcshizney (mcshizney) | 38.93 | 88% | 2015-04-03 |
38675. | Sheen (sheeni09) | 38.93 | 96% | 2024-02-05 |
38676. | Hung (lmhung2007) | 38.92 | — | 2010-03-09 |
38677. | little (littlemike) | 38.88 | 85% | 2013-10-09 |
38678. | mohammed (aljarrah) | 38.87 | 94.1% | 2023-12-27 |
38679. | Glen Jacob Wilson (kidrock_... | 38.87 | 93% | 2024-02-03 |
38680. | Kelly (kellyd35) | 38.86 | 95% | 2012-11-29 |
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Long Texts | 108 | 73.53 | December 30, 2016 |
Instant Death Mode | 86 | 79.76 | April 2, 2010 |
Riverside Middle School | 3 | 72.81 | January 25, 2011 |
##typeracer | 2 | 55.97 | January 27, 2021 |