Word: swirbul
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Since the death in 1960 of longtime President Leon ("Jake") Swirbul, Grumman has been piloted by E. (for Edwin) Clinton Towl, 57, one of the six air-struck men who founded the company in a Long Island garage 33 years ago (among the others: Swirbul and Chairman Leroy Grumman, now 67). Quiet and unassuming, Towl (pronounced Toll) runs less of a one-man show than colorful Jake Swirbul did. When asked to name the big moment in his career, Clint Towl grins. "Tomorrow." With that LEM contract in his pocket, he is undoubtedly right...
...chief engineer at Douglas' giant El Segundo plant from 1936 to 1958, Heinemann won fame as the exponent of clean, uncluttered aircraft, designed such famous Navy aircraft as the Skyraider attack bombers and the Dauntless dive bombers. ¶E. Clinton Towl, 54, succeeded the late Leon A. Swirbul as president of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. Towl was one of the founders of the company in 1929, along with Board Chairman Leroy Grumman and Swirbul. His specialty is administration and finance...
...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...