Digre had been struggling without success to find someone to repair his wife's broken radio, eventually deciding to just recone the malfunctioning speaker himself with the help of some classmates at radio school. That experience led Digre to create the Minneapolis Speaker Reconing Company in 1949, repairing everything from radios to speakers for drive-in movie theaters. The start-up transitioned to creating original speakers in 1956 and evolved into MISCO (Minneapolis Speaker Company), with Digre and his partners honing the full manufacturing process over the next three decades, including design, production, and testing. Dan Digre, Clifford's son, took the helm in 1990 and grew MISCO into a respected original equipment manufacturer, creating custom speakers for commercial aircraft, vehicles, medical devices, instruments, and even the Orion spacecraft for NASA's Artemis mission.
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- Clifford Digre left and his business partners outside the first MISCO location in 2
- Minneapolis in the 1950s. 2
- Clifford Digre identified a gap in the market for speaker repairs after spending weeks 3
- Dan Digre took over MISCO in 1990 and helped expand the companys reach to an 3
- A Web of Unintended Consequences 4
- The New Protectionism Consensus 4
- Never miss a beat. 4
- It is impossible to remain 5
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