Word: tinian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the fall of the same year that Comdr. Tully went to the destroyer U.S.S. Norman Scott as Executive Officer. Having completed missions in the invasion of Saipan and Guam, the Scott was covering the landings on Tinian when Jap shore batteries scored hits with six 6-inch shells...
...wages on Saipan and Tinian have been fixed at a standard level of 35 to 50? a day, plus food, clothing, shelter. That is enough for the Jap, Korean and Chamorro laborers to buy U.S. cigarets (at 7? a pack),* cloth, soap, toilet paper, shampoo, dark glasses, and occasional candy bars-all covered by rigid price ceilings...
First Japanese civilian communities occupied by U.S. troops in World War II were the Marianas Islands of Saipan and Tinian, last June. There, as everywhere, warfare brought normal economic processes to a shocked and paralyzed stop. But U.S. soldiers build even better than they tear down. By last week the occupied Marianas again had a healthy civilian economy operating, complete with a local variety of OPA price control...
...their rates (shave and haircut: 5?) under signs, in English and native languages, warning customers not to pay more. Seamstress shops qualify their prices (trousers or dresses: 30?) with notices that "no additional charge will be made for materials." Under such rules, business is brisk. The trade shop at Tinian's Churo Camp (pop. 11,142) grosses close...
Experience gained in the Marianas may well set the pattern for administration of Jap territory occupied in the future. The civil affairs section in Tinian is already planning the next step: private business operated by native businessmen...