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2 [[strikethrough]]as told[[/strikethrough]] instructions and took train #2 for New York On arrival at Jersey City I was met by Gordon Craig, chief clerk to Mr. Wallace, who gave me the following outline of my job for the next seven days: Hearst's "New York American" was offering a prize of [[strikethrough]] fifty thousand dollars [[/strikethrough]] $50,000 for the first trans-continental air-flight, to be consummated in [[circled]] thirty [[/circled]] days, elapsed time. Armour & Co of Chicago were putting on the market a [[strikethrough]]new[[/strikethrough]] grape juice drink called "Vin Fiz" and had been sold the idea of using this air flight as an advertising medium for their new product.