Anthony Maglica turned $125 and a used lathe into an American icon - and then spent five decades refusing every reason to move the factory offshore.
Devos Outdoor turned a small annoyance - a dim lantern sitting on a picnic table - into a telescoping product line that first responders and overlanders now hang their evenings on.
Cell towers go down in storms. Midland Radio has spent 66 years selling the backup - and turned a fading CB brand into the default radio for Jeep trails, farm fields, and emergency closets.