Word: orteig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raymond Orteig, Manhattan hotelman: "Home last week from France, where I had awaited the arrival of Pilot Rene Fonck and comrades in the ill-fated Sikorsky plane with which they had hoped to win my standing offer of $25,000 for a non-stop flight between New York and Paris (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.), I revealed that one-legged Pilot Paul Tarascon* and one-eyed Pilot François Coli, Frenchmen, were all but ready to try for my money in a flight from Paris to New York, next fortnight. These two tried to fly over last year...
...first important announcement from Westbury was: another attempt at the flight, in another Sikorsky, by the Messrs. Fonck and Curtin, for Hotelman Raymond C. Orteig's $25,000 prize, yes; for the advancement of aviation and French American amity, by all means; but mostly, in memory of the charred sacrifices- Operator Clavier, Mechanic Islamoff...
...Fonck-Fonck, Fonck-Fonck! For weeks the press has been full of the ace of allied aces, M. le Capitaine René Fonck, who came to the U. S. to fly from Long Island to Paris for a $25,000 prize offered by Hotelman Raymond Orteig of Manhattan, (TIME...
...prize money and prophesied that soon London newspapers would be sold the day of issue in Manhattan. But no man has since attempted the feat of a non-stop transatlantic passage in a heavier-than-air* machine, though of late years a Manhattan hotel man, Raymond Orteig, has been offering $25,000 to see it duplicated. Lately, in and about Manhattan, there has moved a stalwart, not-very-tall young man with the gait of a college quarterback and a stiff little mustache like a French soldier's. One day last week he dropped in on Mayor Walker...
...Argonauts, Inc., formed to back Captain Fonck, that a ship, the S-35, would be made within 10% of certain specifications. No mention was made by Captain Fonck of Hotelman Orteig's $25,000 prize money and last week, with the Sikorsky ship a-testing, the public had all but forgotten there was a prize . Data. Captain Fonck's two care fully-chosen U. S. companions for the flight are Captain Homer M. Berry, pilot, and Lieut. Allan P. Snody, navigator. The S-35 has a wingspread of 101 feet. Her motors are three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiters...