The community’s Moravian values became, if anything, even more imbued in the company. Work: Competitors’ tobacco buyers returned home and goofed off after the eight-month tobacco-auction season. Reynolds’s were assigned to cull the tobacco leaves they had bought, forcing them to contemplate the quality of their labors. Thrift: Reynolds workers were expected to turn in the stub of a pencil to get a new one. A young manager running a small fan in his office on a sultry summer day was admonished to unplug it. A waste of electricity. Ingenuity: The company developed a way to recycle scraps and
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