Word: adroitest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost wages. It cost about 50,000 workers in Chrysler supplier plants nearly $12 million in paychecks, although they were not on strike, and it deprived Chrysler and its dealers of 518,000 new cars and trucks worth more than $1 billion. It cost Reuther, normally one of the adroitest of negotiators and ablest of labor leaders, considerable prestige; there was strong dissatisfaction in his own ranks because of his arbitrary handling of the strike. Chrysler, the toughest major opponent the union faces, had practically refused to bargain whenever Reuther himself was in the room...
Feature attraction on the "off" track is the Inaugural Handicap ($2,500) with New England's adroitest pick-pockets running second best. The three men with the crystal balls at the CRIMSON see 'em this...
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