Lock, stock and barrel

According to the Polish government records, as late as June 1939 the firm of Winnica was owned, lock, stock, and barrel, by a French firm. Unknown to the Poles, Farben and this French firm had planned Winnica as a joint enterprise from the beginning. But tile Farben half was hidden because Poland, learning a lesson from the years before World War I, had forbidden German firms to participate in Polish enterprises. 

Well, they didn t know, of course. They planned Monowitz lock, stock, and barrel then they built it with their own money — but they never looked the place over ... 

During this "conference on mobilization matters," Haefliger, who had been making a study of enlarging Farben s headquarters at Frankfurt, recommended instead that Farben move its headquarters to Berlin, lock, stock, and barrel. The prosecution asked ... 

So, if Farben did direct Dynamit A.G. lock, stock, and barrel, that, too, was beside the point. It was beside the point that here were men who not only put the dynamite combine behind the government s growing lust for war, but willfully drove the machine to the very edge of war, knowing it carried a power even greater than the government knew ... 

At this early period of its history, the shoulder rifle was already composed of all fundamental elements necessary to aim and fire it. The list of these three elements is still used as a figure of speech to express a complete package — lock, stock, and barrel... 

Obtaining clinical candidates through in-licensing and acquisition has become so competitive, in fact, that in 2005 the median acquisition deal cost pharma companies 170 million, almost triple the 2004 price of 57 million. To the biotech industry, strapped for cash in the wake of the nuclear winter of 2002, this is a welcome relief, even if it means having to sell an innovative small company lock, stock, and barrel. 

Lavoisier took over this understanding of substances lock, stock and barrel, his reprimanding Aristotle for the four elements notwithstanding [Lavoisier, 1789, p. xxiii]. He even retains one of the Aristotelian elements, listing caloric as the element of heat or fire [Lavoisier, 1789, p. 175]. This element becomes fixed in bodies. .. [and] acts upon them with a repulsive force, from which, or from its accumulation in bodies to a greater or lesser degree, the transformation of solids into fluids, and of fluids to aeriform elasticity, is entirely owing [1789, p. 

Ktg. 2263 shows th t form of the Colt shot gtin, haring concealed hnnmicrs which nrc cocked by the breaking doum of the barrels. The liauniicrs can be locked In this position, to prevent accidents, by a forward motion of the trigger, and released at will by a fomard and downward motion of a st p on top of the stock. 

The Puiof.—Tbe wheel-lock went into quite general use, finally leading to the invention of the pistol, about 1544. The fixet pistols were single barrel, and very short. The stock was heavy, and the breech or handle, instead of leaving the barrel... 

ImporUjait /mprousmeala.—Rapidly following the invention of the flint-lock came important improvements in the musket. Tlie stock was lig ten and put into better shape, and sights were invented and placed upon the barrels. Up to Uiis time, the soldier had been forced to carry his ammunition in bulk, but now cartridges were brought into use, cauried in convenient and neatly made cartridge-boxes. 

The Bar fjtck. This lock, Fig. 44, is so called from a bar fornicd ut Uiu brooch end of the barrel, and to this bar the lock is fitted. The groat advantage of this lock LS that it admits of the stock to be so shaped that the grasp of Uio hand naturally tightens as the gun is raised to the shoulder. The objcc-tioD raised by some to this lock is that it is more pervious to wet than the back action lock. 

Breech.—earlier days all that portion of the back the lock was considered the breech but now a gun is regarded as baring two breechee the breech of the barrel, the place where the cartridge is inserted, as in the case of the breech-loaders and the breech of the stock, being that part which comes against the shoulder. 

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