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 United States operated a barge-based reactor to electrify the Panama Canal Zone from 1968 to 1976, and Sweden used nuclear heating in a suburb of Stockholm from 1963 to 1974.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
In 1942, Barbara had transferred from Carleton to Radcliffe, but in 1944, she signed up to serve in the Panama Canal Zone.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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