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Emil Sick (June 3, 1894 – November 10, 1964) was a
brewing Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer, ...
worker and industrialist in
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and later the U.S. He is best known for his involvement as owner of baseball teams and stadiums in Seattle and
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from the 1930s until 1960. In 1928 he founded, with Frederick McCall, an aviation company, the Great Western Airways which acquired Purple Label Airlines operating Stinson Detroiter.


See also

* Sick's Stadium * List of defunct airlines of Canada *Seattle Postcards: The Seattle Rainiers. credit: The Seattle Times
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– photo * 1894 births 1964 deaths Canadian brewers Businesspeople from Seattle American brewers 20th-century Canadian businesspeople 20th-century American businesspeople {{Washington-bio-stub