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Swirbul was constantly thinking up schemes to raise morale and lower absenteeism. He set up a "green truck" service to cruise the parking lot and change flat tires. Later, when Grumman Aircraft employed 8,000 women, many of them housewives, the green trucks would run errands for them, check to see if the windows were down in their homes and the iron turned off. He built baseball diamonds, organized a band to play for dancing at lunchtime. To promote a company spirit, Swirbul set up a bonus system based not on individual performance, but on the plant's total...
Victory Cutbacks. After V-J Day, when the big cutbacks came, Swirbul was forced to lay off the entire working force of 25,500. He hired back a nucleus of 3,500. Although Grumman Aircraft's sales dropped from $236,846,861 in 1945 to only $37,615,540 the next year, the company-unlike most of the rest of the industry-made a profit...
After Swirbul moved up to the presidency in 1946, the company diversified into boats, missiles and space engineering. But Swirbul's main business remained aircraft-90% for the military. Grumman's gross last year was $288,978,628-second only to the peak year...
...hard pace took its toll on Jake Swirbul. Last week, at 62, weakened by cancer and stricken with pneumonia, he died. When Board Chairman Roy Grumman announced the news over the plant public-address system, there were workers on the assembly line who wept...
Died. Leon A. Swirbul, 62. a founder and president since 1946 of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., whose morale-boosting labor policies helped the company, with its Wildcat and Hellcat fighters, lead the industry in World War II combat-plane production; of pneumonia while ill with cancer; in Manhattan (see BUSINESS...