Tommy (named after the gun) (boonecz)

Race #606

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Official speed 52.90 wpm (82.57 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start October 14, 2013 4:44:03pm UTC
Race Finish October 14, 2013 4:45:26pm UTC
Outcome No win (4 of 5)
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.