Loading ...to see her brother in Montreal . She was complaining that the strong Swiss Franc was a detriment to Swiss exports of their quality merchandise ; Hermes typewriters were made in her town and sales were off drastically because of Japanese competition . She made a living tuning the little forks that went into Swiss music boxes . I am sure that her brother paid for her trip , because she had been making 3 cents per fork tuned by filing the tines .
The Swiss banks were doing well thanks to numbered accounts and depositor secrecy at the time .
In the 70’s , an elderly Swiss lady came over on vacation
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