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The Life and Times of Polly
Polly began making $100 a week just from Tony, which today is over $1,500. At that rate, she was making four times the average white male worker salary at the time. All along, Polly had been sending whatever money she could spare back home to Yano and now she began to send more. To explain the change, she told her parents that she was managing a corset factory. She never forced the women to be there, they were paid well, and they went home at the end of the night.