PANAMA, PANAMA CANAL
NOUNS
► BIG DITCH, THE the Panama Canal → 1975 US sl. (Bk.)
► CROSS ROADS OF THE WORLD Panama → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► ZONIAN an American inhabitant of the Panama Canal Zone, a ten mile wide strip of land crossing the Isthmus of Panama on both sides of the Panama Canal, which was granted to the United States as a territory in 1904 and became independent in 1978 → 1910