Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...German influence has disappeared as mysteriously as have the other elements,--the vaunted German control of the Sultan is entirely a thing of the past. The Berlin to Bagdad railway still exists but its terminal has changed now from Berlin to Paris. Turkey has been left helpless and adrift, and no country is willing to assume the responsibility of guiding the Turks to a haven of peace and industry, despite the fact that Turkey is as rich in resources as any part of the world...
Aviation has been out adrift as it was struggling to gain a foothold in peacetime industrial affairs. Competent authorities say that the industry is 90 per cent, liquidated, and that the remaining 10 per cent, is slowly but surely breaking up. Major-General Menoher, Director of Air Service, recently testified before a senatorial investigation committee that production is at a standstill, and that the aviation personnel has been wiped out. Such a condition is the more deplorable upon consideration of the action of foreign countries. Already French and English companies are developing the airplane as a cargo carrier in South...