Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catch a Big Prize. From then on Big Nick expanded by buying one little boat after another. He branched out into airlines with Alaska Southern Airways in 1931, later sold it to Pan American at a big profit, got back in the business this year with West Coast Airlines...
...Nick, a generous contributor...
...years ago the frown would have stayed. Few around Puget Sound bothered to inquire about Nick Bez until he was photographed rowing the boat as President Truman fished for salmon in Puget Sound in 1945 (see cut). Puget Sounders learned that hard-muscled, hard-talking Nick Bez was quite a fisherman himself. He owned or controlled 1) three of the biggest salmon canneries in Alaska, 2) a string of fishing vessels, 3) two gold mines, 4) an airline-West Coast Airlines, which next month will start a feeder service fanning from Portland into southwest Washington and western Oregon. Since then...
Born 51 years ago on the island of Brae off the coast of Yugoslavia, "Big Nick" came to the U.S. with $1.50 in cash, at 15. He started out fishing for smelts in a borrowed rowboat, was master of a big salmon boat, a purse seiner, within six years. In bloody battles, Big Nick (6 ft. 2 in., 226 Ibs.) led other purse seiners against the beach seiners (who use horses to drag flat nets up on shore), drove most of them out of the $59-million-a-year Alaska salmon industry...
Democratic Party, has been accused of using his political connections to the detriment of small fishermen. This hurts Nick. He confesses that packers, including himself, "cotch too damn many feesh" to maintain present sources of supply. "My interest [in the Explorer]," he recently protested in a ghostwritten letter, "[is] for the postwar stability of the industry, to develop new grounds and methods...