(His father, though genuine émigré aristocracy — he was the son of a Russian count — rushed out west to work on the railroad a mere six months after his arrival, and forever after insisted that he had laid the tracks that his sons could hear singing when they travelled. He went on to become an eminent diplomat).
The railroads had arrived a mere three years before and, with them, the terminal merchants who would make retail history.
It was not a mere bounty for the benefit of the railroads that might accept its provisions, but was legislation intended to promote the interests of the government in opening to settlement and in enhancing the value of those public lands through or near which such railroads might be constructed.
The family's golf story began when an 8-year-old Goalby crossed the railroad tracks between his home and the country club a mere 50 yards away.
The state auditors found that transportation employees had billed construction work at the New Haven railroad station to the Stamford station and mischaracterized capital projects as mere maintenance.
If the mere fact that an individual is on the payroll of someone other than the railroad sufficed to make that individual not an employee of the railroad for FELA purposes, then this Court would not have found it necessary to reverse in the Baker case.
As already stated, it was not the intention of congress to aid in the mere construction of the roadbed or roadway, but to aid in the construction of the railroad as such, which term had a far more extended signification than the mere track or roadway.
Thus, the conclusion that a requirement for long trains will "burden interstate commerce" is a mere euphemism for the statement that a requirement for long trains will increase the cost of railroad operations.
Back in 1903, the town was a mere 14 years old, and was just about as far as a town could be from a railroad station.
It is in a seam seven feet thick covering about 35 square miles, a mere 200 to 250 feet below the surface, and no swing in the market price of coal or railroad bottleneck will affect their access.
