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
So, if the courthouse was located in the Panama Canal Zone or destroyed by an earthquake, relief might be “inadequate or ineffective,” since those courts are no longer standing.
From Slate • Jun. 26, 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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