In the United States the Santa Fe was a pioneer in centralising its scrap handling at Corwith, near Chicago, but after 1924 abandoned this plan in favour of sorting at the point of origin.

Shortly after Donaldson received the throw, Andrus slyly observed that the catcher’s left hand was in the running lane.

He has always kept an orderly kitchen, with nothing out of place.

The supposed equality of the South, he argued, was not the equality of citizens, but of so many masterships or slavedoms. […]