veto definition. The power of a president or governor to reject a bill proposed by a legislature by refusing to sign it into law. The president or governor actually writes the word veto (Latin for âI forbidâ) on the bill and sends it back to the legislature with a statement of his or her objections.
Over the course of the construction of the Empire State Building, five workers died. One worker was hit by a vehicle; a second fell from an elevator shaft; a third was struck â¦and killed by a hoist; a fourth died in a blast area; and a fifth died falling off a scaffold.
The building was finished in record time. Construction of the Empire State Building (Credit: Daniel Ahmad/Wikimedia Commons) Despite the colossal size of the project, the design, planning and construction of the Empire State Building took just 20 months from start to finish.