Panama Canal Zone
Americannoun
noun
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Guibert and her family immigrated to Anaheim from the Panama Canal Zone, a territory long contested between the United States and Panama until 1999.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
The Condor system’s secure communications system, Condortel ... allowed Condor operations centers in member countries to communicate with one another and with the parent station in a U.S. facility in the Panama Canal Zone.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2024
Which presidential hopeful was born in the Panama Canal Zone?
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2023
The family — with three boys and a girl — moved often, including spending about three years in the Panama Canal Zone.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2019
With these in place, German planes could leapfrog their way up the continent and seize the American-controlled Panama Canal Zone, and perhaps even Mexico or Cuba.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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