Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shown on one of the election drawings was unknown to them. "Dispela man humbug mi no lookin dispela man wantain bepo," said the tribal spokesman in fluent pidgin. ("This is humbug! I've never seen this fellow before.") Interest in the election has spurred the revival of native "cargo cults." Cultists believe that white men do not work, that they merely write secret symbols on scraps of paper, for which they receive planeloads of "cargo"-boats, tractors, houses, cars and canned goods...
...believe that they will inherit the white man's magic to make goods materialize without doing any work. To show faith in their belief, some have killed their pigs in sacrificial offering; others have hacked airstrips out of the bush for the planes that will bring in the cargo...
...jungle airstrip was hardly big enough, but a Colombian air force DC-4 touched down to unload a most unmilitary cargo: beds, trunks, dogs, chickens and 64 stony-faced peasants who had been strapped in the bucket seats. The peasants were homesteaders arriving at the outpost town of Florencia to start a new life in Colombia's rich but remote southwest. By sunset, the air force plane was back in Bogota, 240 miles away, with a load of hardwood...
...Satena (for "Service to the National Territories"). The Colombian air force contributed the planes and the pilots, but Satena's other expenses had to be met from revenues. Charging one-fourth the fares of commercial lines, it still manages to stay in the black. Now Satena has eleven cargo planes making 35 trips a week over jungles and mountains to 52 communities-wherever it is needed and where no commercial airlines...
...real surge in air freight came only after the airlines began flying the big passenger jets, whose cargo compartments alone can carry as much freight as a DC-4 air freighter. But the breakthrough in air freight is only beginning. Before mid-1965, U.S. airlines will be flying 30 DC-8F and Boeing 707-321C jet freighters, each of which in one week's normal schedule can car ry coast to coast enough freight to fill 20 boxcars. Using prepacked freight pallets, special lift mechanisms and aircraft floors with built-in rollers, crews can load and unload...