Word: lock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pistols, a rifle and bird gun. Weapons that took only a few weeks to manufacture were subjected to months, often years, of or namentation, with several craftsmen combining their skills. Two Munich gunmakers, for example, used bone, ivory, chiseled steel and beaten gold to decorate a combined wheel lock and matchlock for Maximilian of Bavaria around 1600, with baroque swirls and scores of delicately detailed figures from classical mythology...
...Britain seemed determined to buy the bookmaker lock, stock and tout sheet. Priced at an initial $1.40 each, the 1,350,000 shares were grabbed up in a fraction of the 60 seconds it took Ladbroke's harried brokerage house to announce that the issue had been "very heavily oversubscribed." Altogether, investors came running with enough cash to buy the issue 100 times over. So great was the crush that it will be days before brokers can figure out who was first-come and ought to be first-served, thus delaying the opening of regular trading in the stock...
...Three automakers were engaged in a "collusive conspiracy" masterminded by G.M. What particularly bothered the U.A.W. chieftain was the refusal by G.M. and Chrysler to extend their union contracts be yond last week's expiration date. While assuring the union that his company had "no intention to lock out its employees," G.M. Vice President Louis G. Seaton declared flatly: "There is no possibility of settlement. Therefore we will not extend the contract...
Capital transfers out of the colony, mainly by some wealthy Chinese, are estimated at $66 million in May and June-a mere 4% of the total currency and bank deposits. Many businessmen find comfort in the fact that most firms could move out lock, stock and barrel with little trouble at all, if need be. It is a fact of Hong Kong business life that factory machinery has long been designed for easy loading aboard ships. Business has always been transacted in Hong Kong with an eye to quick returns and with relatively little capital tied down in buildings...
Upton, a rangy (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) former Tulane tackle and onetime dean of business and public administration at Washington University in St. Louis, is successfully breaking what he calls "the lock step of higher-education systems" in which, he contends, the main concern is "the system rather than the end of learning." The intensive lower class year, in which all students take a common course called "Man in Perspective" consisting of interdisciplinary readings ranging from theology to esthetics and science, is designed to provide a firmer transition from high school to the intellectual world. Beloit planners contend...