The college entrance exam results were out by late January.
Due to high shipment volumes, the textile factory had everyone working right up until New Year's Eve before breaking for the holiday.
Every employee's salary was fifty percent higher than in previous years.
Beaming with joy, everyone took their pay, along with the rice and meat distributed by the factory, and headed home for the New Year.
Grace Winslow's pay was higher than anyone else's.
In the past six months, because the textile factory had started producing ready-made clothing and gotten into exporting, its profits had multiplied several times over.
Not only did they avoid a new backlog of unsellable fabric, but they also managed to sell off all the old, previously unsold stock.
Oscar Osborne had received a Model Worker Award, the textile factory had won an Outstanding Enterprise Award, and they were even featured in the newspaper.
Grace Winslow received a whopping 5,632 in year-end pay.
