Even in the golden days of the pre-depression boom, Edmund T. Price was fed up with his job as a stockbroker. He much preferred tinkering in his home workshop, longed for a job where he could work with his hands. In 1928 he pulled up stakes, bought an interest in a tottering California aircraft plant and went to work as a drop-hammer operator. "But after one day, I didn't like the way the place was being run," says Price, "and I asked the board to let me take over as manager....
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