I was in and out of Schenectady a few times. You would have seen Bullards, Giddings & Lewis, Lucas, Kearney & Trecker, Monarch, American, Sundstrand, Lodge & Shipley, deVlieg, and not a single foreign-made machine of any kind until the late ‘80s. By then the American industry was all but dead, and GE was buying German. My rep there made a fortune on one order for about a dozen big German machining centers at nearly half a million apiece.
A friend ran a local private machine shop with machines all bought from GE - they were amazing old machines that worked great.