Panama Canal Zone

Proper noun

Panama Canal Zone

1. (historical) A United States concession within Panama, stretching along the course of the Panama Canal but excluding the sea port cities Panama City and Colón under the 18 November 1903 lease treaty until the return of state control on 30 September 1979. Former postal code: CZ
   • On January 7, 1964, a group of American students at Balboa High School in the Panama Canal Zone set into motion events that soon threatened our relations with Panama and endangered operation of the Panama Canal. It was, on the surface, an inoffensive act: The students raised the American flag in...1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180
   • My parents, however, chose not to be subjected to the indignities and unequal treatment doled out in those days to Blacks in the Panama Canal Zone. They chose to give birth to me in a Panamanian hospital.1986, Gilberto Gerald, “With My Head Held Up High”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 41

   Synonyms:

   Canal Zone