Word: orteig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They dig up $15,000 to back his flight; Lindbergh puts in his own life savings of $2,000. There is also a practical incentive: the Orteig Prize of $25,000 for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris, either...