Short Tons

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or tons:

“You’re too short for that gesture. Besides, it went out with Mrs. Fiske.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)

“Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)