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Million Bales Cotton Move From Mobile To Yokohama
A sensational project plans one million bales of cotton to travel from Mobile Alabama to Yokohama Japan by rail to Seattle and then ocean steamships. The task, described as Jim Hill’s giant contract, would involve a train about 165 miles long and would showcase vast cotton volumes across the country and into Japan, with a special government pre cooling railway car job advertised for a thin applicant.
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Mobile
Japan
Jim Hill
Alabama
Seattle
Rock of Gibraltar
Equator
Poles
New Orleans
St. Paul
Minnesota
Washington State
Ala
Yokohama
Jim Hills
Taska
Tkmoana
Wen
Jim
Donaldson
Baton
Oda
Bureau of Plant