The Humbler (the_humbler)

Race #2023

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Official speed 91.33 wpm (47.83 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start May 5, 2013 4:23:30am UTC
Race Finish May 5, 2013 4:24:18am UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 3)
Accuracy 96.0%
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.