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Race #199

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Official speed 102.75 wpm (42.51 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start March 15, 2014 6:50:16pm UTC
Race Finish March 15, 2014 6:50:59pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 0.00
Text #394 (Length: 364 characters)

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.