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.
For that, they were paid four dollars a day, twice the average wage for manual labour at the time. The wages added to the enormous expense of building the Empire State, which in total cost $40,948,900 to build (equivalent to $635,021,600 in 2015). âBuilding skyscrapers is the nearest peacetime equivalent of war.