American Airlines announced that it has ordered...

American Airlines announced that it has ordered six A300-600R wide-body aircraft from Airbus Industrie, with an option for six more. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. . . . Chemical manufacturer American Vanguard Corp. said it completed the sale of the operating assets of ABSCO Distributing, a subsidiary in Torrance, to PDI Western Distributing Group Inc., a wholly owned unit of Phoenix Distributors Inc. . . . The board of Pauley Petroleum Inc. has approved changing the name of the company to Hondo Oil & Gas Co. effective Jan. 1. . . Citadel Holding in Glendale is changing the name of its Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan Assn. subsidiary to Fidelity Federal Bank.