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...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...
...Japs' home air forces, staging in the Bonins, turned on a flurry of attack, bombed new U.S. airfields on Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas. But this preventive did not prevent another scare: three days later the U.S. reconnaissance planes were back over Tokyo. The Japs, who had been panicked by Jimmy Doolittle's token raid in 1942, were in a dither again, even before the first B-29 raid on Tokyo had been staged...
...Tinian, Siwash got back into his waddle: he hit the beach on D-day and personally captured a tiny Jap duck. But he had to leave his war bride behind...