Word: orteig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comfortably wealthy from returns from his writings, awards for his nights (beginning with a $25,000 award for his flight to Paris, given by Raymond Orteig who died last week-see p. 55), many another source, Lindbergh sees before him the friendly prospect of a normal life in his own country, but between it and him lies the high fence of misunderstanding. To his old friends he is almost unchanged, still direct, cheerful, frank, a little more mature and self-possessed. To the U. S. public before which he cannot appear without growing gawky, from which he instinctively shrinks...
Died. Raymond Orteig, 69, restaurateur and airmen's angel; after long illness; in Manhattan. Stirred by Alcock & Brown's transatlantic flight (1919), he posted a $25,000 purse for the first non-stop New York-Paris flight. Six fliers lost their lives before Charles A. Lindbergh...
...prize offered by Manhattan Hotelman Raymond Orteig, a young (25) onetime mail pilot left Roosevelt Field in a Ryan monoplane at 7:52 a. m., May 20, 1927 to fly nonstop to Paris. He carried 425 gal. of fuel, four sandwiches, two canteens of water, army emergency rations. Sitting on a gasoline tank, seeing through a periscope, Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to Le Bourget Field in 33½ hr., landed to receive such acclaim as had been given no private citizen before or since...