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August 22, 1943

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SHIPBUILDING GOAL OF 20 MILLION TONS SET FOR U.S. IN 1944; Aim Is Coupled With Official Word of U.S.-British-Canada Control Board TO STANDARDIZE DESIGNS Joint Chiefs of Staffs Urged the New Unit -- Nelson Reveals How Results Are Achieved SET 1944 SHIP GOAL OF 20 MILLION TONS

By the Associated Press

WPB Chmn Nelson reveals Brit-Amer-Canadian Combined Com on Ship Design Standardization has standardized propulsion equipment, steel towboats and escort ships, 6 mos; reveals com composition and apptmt of W F Gibbs, WPB shipbldg controller, as chmn

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ISLAND EVACUATED; Enemy Fled in Heavy Fog, Navy Believes -- No Ships Found ALEUTIANS CLEANED OUT Northern Route for Attack on Enemy's Outposts and Mainland Now Open ALLIES TAKE KISKA; JAPANESE ARE GONE

By Sidney Shalettspecial To the New York Times

US and Canadian troops land, Kiska; map; island completely evacuated; Jap haste indicated; campaign revd

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Fog Curbs Air War; Le Bourget Reached

By the Associated Press

Fog prevents Allied raids; fighter planes reach Le Bourget airfield in sweeps over France; down Ger plane, damage tug and 4 freight locomotives

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EVELYN ROLLS WINS BY HEAD AT 15 TO 1; Mrs. Wolfe's Filly Outraces Sickle Sun at Pawtucket in Jeanne d'Arc Stakes EVELYN ROLLS WINS BY HEAD AT 15 TO 1

By the Associated Press

PAWTUCKET, R.I., Aug. 21 -- Mrs. H.C. Wolfe's Evelyn Rolls, daughter of Rolls Royce that cost $700 at the Saratoga sales last summer, earned $4,850 by winning the Jeanne d'Arc Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Narragansett Park today.

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MESSAGE FROM THE COAST; ' The New Meet The People' Opens in Los Angeles, Also 'Silk Hat Harry'

By MARIAN SPITZER

Meet the People, by H Myers, E Eliscu, J Gorney and D Dare (Los Angeles)

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1943Alun Michael, Welsh police commissioner and politician, inaugural First Minister of Wales^[†]

Alun Edward Michael is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative retired politician. He served as Secretary of State for Wales from 1998 to 1999 and then as the first First Secretary of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour from 1999 to 2000. He went on to serve as South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner from 2012 to 2024.

1943Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist and engineer, co-designed the Intel 4004^[†]

Masatoshi Shima is a Japanese electronics engineer. He was one of the architects of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. In 1968, Shima worked for Busicom in Japan, and did the logic design for a specialized CPU to be translated into three-chip custom chips. In 1969, he worked with Intel's Ted Hoff and Stanley Mazor to reduce the three-chip Busicom proposal into a one-chip architecture. In 1970, that architecture was transformed into a silicon chip, the Intel 4004, by Federico Faggin, with Shima's assistance in logic design.

Headlines from August 22, 1943

SHIPBUILDING GOAL OF 20 MILLION TONS SET FOR U.S. IN 1944; Aim Is Coupled With Official Word of U.S.-British-Canada Control Board TO STANDARDIZE DESIGNS Joint Chiefs of Staffs Urged the New Unit -- Nelson Reveals How Results Are Achieved SET 1944 SHIP GOAL OF 20 MILLION TONS

ISLAND EVACUATED; Enemy Fled in Heavy Fog, Navy Believes -- No Ships Found ALEUTIANS CLEANED OUT Northern Route for Attack on Enemy's Outposts and Mainland Now Open ALLIES TAKE KISKA; JAPANESE ARE GONE

Fog Curbs Air War; Le Bourget Reached

EVELYN ROLLS WINS BY HEAD AT 15 TO 1; Mrs. Wolfe's Filly Outraces Sickle Sun at Pawtucket in Jeanne d'Arc Stakes EVELYN ROLLS WINS BY HEAD AT 15 TO 1

MESSAGE FROM THE COAST; ' The New Meet The People' Opens in Los Angeles, Also 'Silk Hat Harry'

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