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The Rise of Towns
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Garapan wasn't the only boomtown in the Marianas. Here is Tinian Town in the late 1930s. The smokestacks at the right mark the sugar refinery and alcohol plant that were the heart of the island's economy. By 1935 Tinian had a population of 14,000.
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