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Perhaps Colonel Green does have strange whims?most wealthy men with scientific inclinations are considered "queer" by their neIghbors. But, more likely, Colonel Green's newest whim will make him a patron of U. S. aviation as famed as Rodman Wanamaker, Raymond Orteig, Daniel Guggenheim, Henry & Edsel Ford...
...insurance policies and lithe-limbed athletes hold grandstand conferences. Here was one man who did some thing for motives other than there being "money in it," for it is hard ly sentimentalism to feel that Colonel Lindbergh did not cross the Atlantic with his mind focused on Mr. Orteig's $25,000. It was one instance in which the Dollar was not quite Almighty, of the Golden Age v. the Age of Gold...
...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...