Snook attended Fairmount College (now Wichita State University) in 1919. He worked at E.M. Laird Company to produce the Laird Swallow. He was instrumental in designing innovative tools and assembly jigs, to build airplanes in quantity. Snook was factory manager at Travel Air, in partnership with Lloyd Stearman and Walter Beech. In 1933 he joined Clyde Cessna as his plant manager and instituted several efficient methods of building high quality airplanes. He ended his career in Quality Control at Boeing, working on B-29’s during World War II.