TOASTMASTER: What is this war about, Jack Reed?
Reed stands. The assembled banqueteers -- prosperous burghers, their bellies bulging beneath the white fronts of their tuxedos -- look up at the reporter just returned from the front.
REED: Profits.
Reed sits down.
-- From the film "Reds," by Warren Beatty
Halliburton Announces 284 Percent Increase in War Profits
