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n. - A chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam) halfway between New Guinea and Japan.

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  • The Marianas are a U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean where our federal labor laws don't apply.
  • Kharagpur to Tinian in the Marianas is a straight-line 3,832 miles or seventeen and a half hours by B-29.
  • Economically, the development of the sugar industry, under the leadership of Matsue Haruji, in the Marianas was the most important.
  • Though Wake remained in Japanese hands until war’s end, the Marianas were an equally obvious roost.
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