Word: atlantica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next step is to try your own advertisement. It must be specific as to your needs, for few apartments have iceboxes or telephones and getting a telephone takes from one to three years. Our ad brought us some leads. The first place we saw was on Avenida Atlantica, hanging right over Copacabana Beach. It was perfect-for midgets. The front room was so small you could light the landlady's cigaret (she sat across the room) without getting up. But size was the least drawback. With the apartment-at $225 a month-went the landlady's grandmother. Grandma...
Positively, Siqueira Campos, Otavio Correa and the rest of their comrades, became Avenida Atlantica in Copacabana, famous in Brasilian people's heart...
...Eighteen of the Fort marched the length of Copacabana's Avenida Atlantica to meet more than 2,000 loyal troops armed with machine guns and small cannon. The Eighteen took to the beach, dug trenches in the sand, made one of the bravest stands in the history of any army. One by one they were picked off-some killed outright, some desperately wounded. Octavio Corrêa was one of the first to die; his blue suit made him an easy mark...