Word: orteig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reward. Not only did Captain Lindbergh win the $25,000 prize offered by Raymond Orteig, Manhattan hotelman, for the first New York-Paris non-stop flight, but he established for himself the immemorial right of extracting dollars from the hero-gaping U. S. public by appearing on the vaudeville stage, in the cinema, etc. A money-minded New York Herald Tribune writer figured out that Captain Lindbergh, as a professional hero, could (if he chose) earn $1,000,000 in one year in the following manner...
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...Raymond Orteig, Manhattan hotelman, donor of the $25 000 prize for the first non-stop flight between Paris and New York, offered a $5,000 reward to the aviator who should discover either Captain Nungesser or Captain Coli or traces of their White Bird. Soon followed the announcement by Rodman Wanamaker, Manhattan-Philadelphia department store owner, of a $25,000 reward to anyone who should find the two Frenchmen, dead or alive...
Both shores of the Atlantic buzzed last week with the activities of men determined to fly between New York and Paris. The standing offer of Raymond C. Orteig, Manhattan hotel man, of $25,000 to the first successful performer, and the 10,000 francs ($400) offered by the Paris Temps, had little to do with the case. These sums would hardly pay interest on the total investments involved. Fame, promotions, cinema and press contracts, above all Adventure?were the real stimulants...
...France: "A Manhattan perfumer, a Manhattan lawyer and I filed papers at Albany, N. Y., last week for the American and Overseas Aeronautical Corp., a company capitalized at $150,000 to back another effort by me, next summer, to fly from New York to Paris Hotelkeeper Raymond C. Orteig's $25,000 prize offer was 'merely incidental' to our plan. I intend to use another ship made by the builders of the S-35, the trimotored Sikorsky which turned a cartwheel as we were taking off in it for Paris last autumn and burned...