Word: zistersdorf
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...have a total capacity of 5,000,000 tons - one-fourth of Russia's capacity. Yet this production has long been based on materials imported from the West, especially ores from Sweden. In oil - mainly from Rumania's Ploesti, Hungary's Lispe and Austria's Zistersdorf fields - the satellites can produce 6,000,000 tons, a sixth of Russia's own production. But most of this oil is needed to keep the satellites' own industry going...
...percent of all of Austria's industry, including the Zistersdorf oilfield, Credit-Anstalt bank, factories making electrical machinery, tools, locomotives...
Only two months ago, the West had enjoyed clear moral and political superiority in Austria by its strong stand against Russian seizures of Austrian industry, farmlands and Zistersdorf oil. But so devastating were the effects of Communist propaganda 'and the West's own fumbling, wavering policy that now the U.S.-British advantage was all but erased. By week's end, Austrian politicians were almost afraid of getting the U.S. loan they had dreamed about since liberation...
Brave as the gesture was, it was only a gesture. Austria's parliamentarians could not really nationalize Russian-held industries; indeed, the Red Army would not even permit Austrian officials to visit Zistersdorf...
...before it Figl's bill to nationalize 81 industries, amounting to 50% of the country's production. The Russian note asked for 25 exceptions on the ground that they were "German assets" and therefore could be seized by Russia under the Potsdam agreement. The exceptions included the Zistersdorf oilfields, the Danube Shipping Company and almost all of Austria's chemical industry...