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...pairings that 18th-year Head Coach Dave Fish selected at the NITC last week will probably last for the majority of the season, unless the injury bug happens...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: A New Year of Upset-Minded Experience | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...Nation of Islam operates restaurants, bakeries and fish markets. Members tithe, and some have donated for decades to buy farmland, a scheme Farrakhan pledges to finally put into action this summer. He vows to open a $3 million restaurant-and-bakery complex on Chicago's South Side, reopen a Nation of Islam supermarket and build a printing plant for the Final Call big enough to rent space. He recently bought a Chicago "business center" to house management and media operations as he expands into TV. He already has Nation of Islam bookstores that do a brisk business in tapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louis Farrakhan: Pride and Prejudice | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...trout, which could not be used in salmon plants was given to workers who would, "take the Crisco used to lubricate the machines and fry the fish. We'd kill them, cut them up and eat them. They tasted amazing." Sometimes, David admits, workers would steal salmon too--sticking them into the spaces left by oversized boots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT LUCRATIVE UNKNOWN | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...slime line's attractive job description entails bending over freezing water as streams of decapitated fish bodies speed toward you. Hands are half-frozen, nearly numb submerged in fishy slop; floors are covered in putrid slime. In the unventilated, enclosed factory, "everything smells like fish," Herne explains, and the whine of the conveyer belt is unceasing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT LUCRATIVE UNKNOWN | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

Herne's hard work did not go unrewarded. At the first opportunity he got off the slime line and joined the "Dock Crew," where, instead, of cutting and gutting fish, he shoveled ice on the incoming loads of salmon. His first day, "They worked [him] as hard as they could," but Herne says he kept going. He would do "anything to leave the slime line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT LUCRATIVE UNKNOWN | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

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