By the late 1930s, Brown Brothers Harriman, which claimed to be the world's largest private investment bank, and UBC had bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, fuel, steel, coal and US treasury bonds to Germany, both feeding and financing Hitler's build-up to war.
Gold fuels the story of love, power, redemption and renunciation in the worlds of gods and heroes, dwarves and giants, Valkyries and mortals.
Its natives were friendly & docile, its vegetation was sumptuous, & he found enough gold to fuel expectiations of more.
Called oro verde, or green gold, henequen fueled the Yucatán's economy -- as the elegant mansions of Mérida attest -- until the development of synthetic materials after World War II caused a rapid decline in the market.
Panic at the Disco's first album has sold 1.7 million copies; the most recent albums by two of the label's other bands, Paramore and Gym Class Heroes, have gone gold, and Fueled by Ramen bands like Cute Is What We Aim For are building an audience.
Information is the gold and the fuel.
SO despite the fierce debate over what's behind the recent spike in prices, no one differs on what's really responsible for all that underlying demand here for black gold: the automobile, fueled not only by gasoline but also by Americans' famous propensity for voracious consumption.
Congolese officials see Kenya as a major hub in the illegal gold trade, which fuels DR Congo's 15-year conflict.
"Transitional times are a gold mine for fueling change," says David Ngo, founder of Behavior Delta, whose work focuses on combining neuroscience and behavioral design.
Vanderbilt helped fuel the gold rush, getting his steamships around to San Francisco.
He did not like to charge too much, lest high prices fuel a gold rush on the agave.
