1952: Miniature golf
You can’t get more miniature than this!
1952: Laziness
A ramshackle way of getting up. This is not an example of gracious living.
I’ve worked in places like that. 
1947: Emmett and space exploration
Emmett shows whimsical scientists and primitive components intended to enter the space race. Cape Canaveral need not worry about competition.
1946: Cat up a tree
Perhaps it wants to be ‘rescued’.
It’s laughing at them. I know cats.
1948: Austerity
Austerity was then the official government policy. The credit crunch that time round was caused by the massive loans taken out to pay for the war effort. We needed to match our imports by an equivalent amount of exports. We were literally told that we needed to tighten our belts.
The air stewardess is referring to two sorts of belt tightening. These passengers enjoy much more space than their modern equivalents. However, air travel was vastly more expensive at the time. Package holidays and airline competition were still in the future.
Nothing surer 
1947: Class envy
I see that Anton has been affected by a widespread upper middle class reaction to improved working class life styles. No chairman of the board would ever really be tempted by shop floor overtime rates. There really were people who felt personally offended when manual labourers were able to buy motor cars.
1946: Army surplus
This cartoon was produced by the artist who placed modern circumstances into events set in history or mythology. The letter SPQR was the trigger for the point of the joke. In the immediate post war period various army surplus products became available to the general public. The initials SPQR was the way in which the Roman state described itself. It stood for Senatus PupulusQue Romanus meaning the senate and people of Rome. In the UK the letters WD (War Department) identified ex-army equipment.
The artist has not accurately described the use of elephants in the ancient world. It was the Carthaginians under their general Hannibal who used elephants in his wars against Rome.
Yes, a particularly clever one!
1951: Hollywood complete
These stars are pictured in an American institution called, I think, an automat. Here you put you coin in the appropriate dish and the window opens up for you.
I can’t identify many of them. Chaplin is obvious a third of the way up on the left. Charles Laughton, as Henry VIII, is tucking into a pie perhaps also a third of the way up on the right hand side. Bob Hope probably is on the right just above the bottom margin. I would guess that the Arab on the left side at the bottom is Peter O’Toole as Laurence of Arabia. I don’t know who played Frankenstein (Boris Karlof?) but he is clearly to be seen holding his cup of coffee. I suppose the lady in white tie tuxedo and top hat is Marlene Dietrich. The only ‘black’ star present would surely be Al Jonson. (Political Correctness was to arrive much later than 1951.) Orson Wells would obviously be there but there are several men who could be him as far as I can see. Several others look vaguely familiar but I can’t identify any of them. I think 1951 was too early for Marilyn Monroe.
Any suggestions?
I can see Abbott and Costello - possibly the unfunniest duo ever, Bob Hope, Harold Lloyd, Rudolph Valentino, Peter Lorre, Edward G Robinson with Clarke Gable?, Danny Kaye and Bette Davis. Marlene Dietrich and Bob Hope seem to appear twice.
1946: Post war technology and fairy stories
The man on the ground is not using a metal detector. He is checking for mines. The goblin with the pot of gold is afraid of being found out. He is ‘safe’ until the detectors are invented.
1954: Westward Ho? No thanks!
The original picture represented a fashion in Tudor times for exploration and adventures in the new world – especially the Americas. Here the cartoonist suggests that the boys might not be thrilled at the prospect being urged.
1946: A constant theme
The cartoonist could not have known that steady inflation would be the prospect for the next 70 years at least.
1949: At the barber’s
Surely the customer is supposed to be able to see the back of his head in the mirror?
You would think so wouldn’t you reminds me of my wardrobe mirrors that open onto each other and my grandkids love to giggle at 100s of themselves:)
1946: Emmett’s coach tour
Emmett entertains us with his retro version of a bus tour. The onboard ‘film projector’ wins first prize.
1955: Ecclesiastic titles
A nice uncomplicated cartoon. The temptation to look for hidden double meanings is a reflection of today’s cynicism fuelled by massive real scandals.