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were chiseling

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His union countercharged that a group of fly-by-night dressmakers were chiseling on union contracts.

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Also, OPA decided most of the big packers were chiseling, cracked down on 100 of them for upgrading meat and for short-weighing butchers to get around the price ceiling.

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He looked at the letters the soldiers were chiseling: Volpini, a friend.

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