Posted October 16, 2018 9:26 am by Comments

By Ammoland

Colt M16 Semi Automatic Rifle

Opinion by John McNair

Colt M16 Semi-Automatic Rifle: Photo from Rock Island Auction Company

Washington DC – -(AmmoLand.com)- The stout little guy occupying the couch out in the foyer of Vice President Johnson’s office had just arrived as he had many times over the last year or so. He had spent much time between Johnson and McNamara’s offices trying to help them figure out how the U.S could buy his product and in an amount that would pull his teetering company from the red. This CEO had an unusual history.

David Karr and Alfons Landa (center) Google Image Search

He was born in Paris in 1918 and had been a member of the Communist Party. He was well known around Washington D.C. due to his writing for the communist paper, the Daily Worker. He had been under investigation by the FBI for his communist dealings and by the age of thirty, David Karr, a Russian Jew, had entered the world of public relations and had become a specialist in proxy fights. He partnered with corporate raider Alfons Landa, and by mid-1958 the two of them had taken control of the Penn-Texas Corporation, a holding company valued at over …Read the Rest

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