theaveragedude (the_avg_dude)

Race #742

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Official speed 59.30 wpm (73.66 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start March 24, 2020 11:14:50am UTC
Race Finish March 24, 2020 11:16:04am UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Accuracy 95.0%
Points 61.28
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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.